The Neuroscience Behind Irrational Decisions & Human Cloning

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Introduction

It is a well acknowledged fact that any type of legal bans on novel and highly attractive scientific research drives research underground. One could argue that this would also be the case in human reproductive cloning. Although, in my opinion, tests on that are foolish and lacking solid motivation, that doesn’t excuse some of the baseless reasons often advanced against it. Insinuating that a cloned human would be unnatural, artificially created or soulless echo many of the objections to IVF.

Human Cloning The human reproductive cloning debate reveals more about our inability to make wise decisions as humans and prejudices towards the new technologies such as AI than it does about considering the dignity of the human being involved. As far as I am aware a human being is not a guinea pig or a lion but s/he is an irrational decision maker. Knowing something about how information is represented in the brain and the computational principles of the brain helps us understand why human beings make those irrational decisions. According to that knowledge human beings might blindly transform the human body into an assembly line when seeking valuable mechanisms to improve human health and well-being. Thus when making decisions with regards to human cloning shouldn't we combine results from studies on how we make decisions and why that can lead to mistakes with those on human cloning or the treatment of human tissues in general?

Conclusion The conclusion is that, the main concern over human reproductive cloning is practical — how can we make this an ethical decision? Rather than decide what we hope us humans is the best, we should start by eliminating the worst element from a choice set and hopefully end up with most balanced and reasonable human cloning, if any, decisions.