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　　Recent advances in biotechnology,particularly in the area of human genome research,suggest that within the 21st Century well witness machines that can learnto think on their own, to repair and nurture themselves, to experience visceralsensations本体感觉, and soforth.

　　Humans havethe unique capacity for independent thought, subjectivejudgment, and emotional response

　　科学的双面性

　　for every new research breakthrough thathelps reduces human suffering is another that serves to add to that suffering

　　For example, while somemight argue that physics researchers who harnessed thepower of the atom have provided us with an alternativesource of energy and invaluable peace-keepers, thisargument ignored the face that hundreds ofthousands of innocent people murdered and maimedby atomic blasts, and by nuclear meltdowns核泄露. 美军对广岛原子弹轰炸

　　Hiroshima

　　was destroyed in World War II by the first atomic bomb used in warfarein fulfilling the promise of betterliving through chemistry research has given uschemical weapons for human slaughter.. Chemical warfare biologicalwarfare biochemical warfare

　　研究与投资 31

　　money spent on researchis generally a sound investment because it is an investment in the advancementof human knowledge and in human imagination and spirit.

　　While we must invest in research irrespective ofwhether the results might be controversial, at the same time we should becircumspect about research whoseobjectives are too vague and whose potential benefits are too speculative.