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“What I imagined doesn't require anti-gravity beams or anything too spectacular, just advances in analysing different genes, finding out what they can do and recombining them.”

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Jonathan Trigell

Jonathan Trigell is a British author born in 1974. His works primarily focus on science fiction and fantasy, known for his unique imagination and profound thematic explorations that have won the favor of readers. more

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“New technologies are a good thing but we must consider how they will impact on us so that, when they become achievable, they aren't allowed to run amok.”

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“Holman's world is a worst case scenario but it's healthy to examine extreme possibilities. If the technology that is used for genetic enrichment in Genus had been distributed equitably, across society, it could have been nirvana, a great world where people don't fear the diseases that we die from. The problems that arrive are more to do with resource hording than technology itself.”

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“I like to think of myself as a naturalist - insofar as that term is at all clear.”

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“If the past has been an obstacle and a burden, knowledge of the past is the safest and the surest emancipation.”

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“Seek ye first the good things of the mind, and the rest will either be supplied or its loss will not be felt.”

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“I'm a hardened atheist but I feel that we have an inbuilt need for God. If you eradicate religion, you end up with something terrible in its place, like the communist state, as in Russia or China, where the dictator becomes the messiah figure.”

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“Although a lot of my work on the mind has been rather abstract and philosophical, I'm interested in psychology and neuroscience and I don't think there are any principled distinctions between the kind of knowledge we get from science and the knowledge we get from philosophy.”

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“There are very good evolutionary reasons for having religion. From early human history we have evolved a need to see God. We have a perception of ourselves and in order for that to be a true perception we have to believe in a soul within us.”

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“We have this sense that there's something bigger than us, above and beyond. If you take away the idea of God, you need to replace it with a shared moral code. Otherwise, everybody becomes very self-centred and materialistic.”

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Author:Jonathan Trigell