SUNDAY 16TH FEBRUARY 2003

IDENTITY - WORKING GROUP DISCUSSION

GROUP 4

Impact of even basic society knowledge of DNA etc
- changes how we think about 'identity'

'Stanza - genomixer' - the right to have access to full DNA breakdown of ourselves (and all info around it)

Shifting sand

Why are 'we' interested in identity?
- of genetic tendencies
- Intellectual Property of DNA / of our bodies

What if someone took it?

If have DNA breakdown where it go then? Why? What use? What private still? Opt out choice?

ID twins do not get a unique ID profile
- same

Clone to clone - 'Meet the maker'

Organs transplantation - 'gain body memories of donor'
'dreams/memories' new tastes expanding
Unconscious memories - held in body
ID of donor - in other - tempering of loss

Nature/Nurture debate - % ? %

Protecting your own identity? Can you? Is it important?

Social system - 'I, me, myself' western
- Other cultures, other news on ID
-Obsessive-

Egg sperm donors - now accountable - right to know ID by children

*LAWS CHANGE*

CELL - Jane adult stem cells reverse engineering themselves

Our body choice - plastination or donation? Give away. Preserve.