Will Gregory
Will Gregory
William Owen "Will" Gregory17 September 1959) is an English musician and record producer. He is best known as the lead keyboardist, producer, and composer of the electronic music duo Goldfrapp...
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Retarding the aging process would be therapy and enhancement because it would mean defeating diseases and because it would extend our life span.
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The biggest development in reproductive biology is the birth-control pill. Nobody ever talks about it, but look at the consequences: demographics; aging populations; the sinking population of Europe, Japan; immigration. It's incredible.
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Everybody is going to want to look at their genetics. You're going to want to get a genetic profile.
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No one really has the guts to say it, but if we could make better human beings by knowing how to add genes, why shouldn't we?
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Our increasing ability to alter our biology and open up the processes of life is now fueling a new cultural war.
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In my view, the most damaging evils that are perpetrated upon us are through some abstract notion about good, where we're willing to sacrifice individuals in the present for some great vision of an improved or perfect future.
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Consciousness, for me, is a manifestation of complexity in biology. It's an emergent property.
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We should be happy. We should be enjoying that there is all this bounty. Somebody can take an iPod and have all the world's music at their beck and call in an instant. What an amazing thing!
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We're all going to eventually, even in the developed world, going to have to lose everything that we love. When you're beginning to rot a little bit, all of the videos crammed into your head, all of the extensions that extend your various powers, are going to being to seem a little secondary.
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The other guy I dug a lot was Burroughs because he was a smart man already; he learned it through the druggie pool - the street scene of an old aristocratic kind of man.
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Now, twenty years old, I come out and I go back to Greenwich Village. Now, of course, I'm a wealthy man.
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I was what? - twelve years old - and I was thrown in the cells with these people, so I learned fast.
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Sometimes, when you live a life at such a wild edge, an extreme edge of experience, you can come back into the world - if you come back at all - with some essence from that experience that people find useful.
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'Shantaram' is the second in the series of a quartet of novels that I have planned about my life but is the first to be written. The third book is a sequel to 'Shantaram,' the first a prequel.