The technical is not just the machinery. The technical is a disposition to life.

In cloning, in contrast, reproduction is asexual - the cloned child is the product not of two but of one.

There is a lot of hype and fear about this much-talked-about prospect of designer babies.

We are somehow natured, not just to reproduce, but for sociality and even for culture.

Genetics is crude, but neuroscience goes directly to work on the brain, and the mind follows.

Many other countries have already banned human cloning, and there are efforts at the UN to make such a ban universal.

An enormous amount of direct advertising from pharmaceutical companies are offering a kind of instantaneous solution to problems.