(06-12-2023, 01:22 PM)quintessentone Wrote: Those two serious flaws mentioned (gene therapy and an implant) sort of categorizes it within the fiction genre, am I right?
From the documents presented, it appears that only the brain implant is currently a barrier. The gene therapy is not. According to the documentation, the gene therapy can be accomplished by release of an engineered virus. It's already a well known fact that virii can and do manipulate genetic material during an infection. We, all of us, still bear snippets of "junk DNA" that was injected by virii millennia ago during the infection of some ancestor. Engineering a virus and then releasing it just takes advantage of that natural mechanism to willfully change human DNA in a particular, chosen, direction.
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