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Thursday 7 January 2010

So, let’s say you fully mimic your testicle. Scan it with the same techniques as the brain scan. There it is: testicle on a chip, with an operating system, thank you Microsoft Windows XXXVII. Are you gonna have children with that scan? Is that, in any formal or pragmatic sense, really a testicle? It’s your model of a testicle, made through a certain device and encoded in certain ways. Would you expect it to behave exactly like a testicle? If you kick it does it howl, if you cut it does it bleed? Is it going to go through puberty and viropause, developing in the way that testicles actually develop? No. It’s a medical model of a testicle, so to claim that it’s actually “your testicle” is a category error. Bruce Sterling

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