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freedom of choice

As demonstrated by Lemke in the quote below, genetic information is perceived as the ‘key to freedom’. What does this freedom entail? Is it freedom of uncertainty? Freedom of doubt? Freedom of guilt? It can be argued that one of those promised new freedoms is the freedom of choice. Hence in order to exercise this [...]

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2009 06 23 ethics Comments (0)

Genetic enlightenment

My assumption is that the concept of information is crucial in this context. In the molecular genetic perspective, information at the same time serves as the ‘code of life’ and as the ‘key to freedom’. If the body is nothing other than a genetic program, then disease points to a communication problem. However, this means [...]

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