1. Which author did you find most convincing?
   a) Yes: Antonio Regalado, from "Engineering the Perfect Baby," MIT Technology Review (2015)
   b) No: Elizabeth McNally, from "Testimony before the U.S. House of Representatives Committee on Science, Space, and Technology, Subcommittee on Research and Technology, Hearing on 'The Science and Ethics of Genetically Engineered Human DNA,' "U.S. House of Representatives (2015)
   c) Equally convincing
   
   
   
   
2. Should we modify the genes of human embryos if it can save a life?
   a) strongly yes
   b) somewhat yes
   c) strongly no
   d) somewhat no
   
   Discuss your responses to the first two questions as well as an idea or topic, which relates to these readings, that you would like to share and/or discuss.
   
   
   
   
3. Should we allow genetic alteration to make a baby more intelligent?
   a) strongly yes
   b) somewhat yes
   c) strongly no
   d) somewhat no
   
   
   
   
4. Should we continue to conduct laboratory research on human cells?
   a) strongly yes
   b) somewhat yes
   c) strongly no
   d) somewhat no
   
   
   
   
5. Which best describes your thoughts?
   a) Parents who use In Vitro Fertilization(IVF) should be allowed to select for traits like gender, eye color...
   b) We should not allow that
   
   
   
   
   The following are a series of questions on what it means to be human...
6. Which best describes your thoughts?
   a) Athletes should be prevented from taking performance enhancing drugs
   b) Athletes should be allowed to take performance enhancing drugs
   
   
   
   
7. Which best describes your thoughts?
   a) It is ok for doctors to give human growth hormone to short children who are perfectly healthy (ie not deficient in the hormone)
   b) It is not ok
   
   
   
   
8. Which best describes your thoughts?
   a) We should not allow human cloning
   b) We should allow human cloning in certain circumstances
   c) We should allow human cloning in unrestricted circumstances
   
   
   
   
9. If you were terminally ill and the technology had advanced sufficiently...
   a) I would be interested in transfering my consciousness to a computer host
   b) I would not want to transfer my consciousness to a computer host
   
   
   
   
10. What kinds of replacement of human body parts with technology like the bionic man (artificial limbs, organs...) would you still call a human
    a) any replacement with the consciousness still intact (like a transfer to a computer host)
    b) any replacement with the soul still intact
    c) any replacement that preserves the head
    d) at most 50% replacement
    e) other
    
    
    
    
11. Studies have found that excessive time online (like many hours of multiplayer games) restructures the brain and causes physical changes
    a) We should conduct further research on this phenomena
    b) We should establish safe benchmark guidelines
    c) I welcome the changes to the brains
    d) both a) and b)
    e) both a) and c)
    
    
    
    
12. I believe that in the future...
    a) Humanity will have chips implanted in our heads that allow for internet and phone access
    b) This kind of technology will remain outside the body like it is now