"It is important to begin to give consideration to these issues now." I wonder, from whence will come the living soul for these engineered things?... Oh well, the scientists in this realm probably don't believe the soul is anything more than the vagary of complexity, an artifact that is because the human machine is so complex. It never occurs to them that the conveying of 'life' status is an act of a much greater creator than they--these arrogant demigods--can ever aspire to obtain. Won't they be surprised when they have to create their own dirt and dust of the ground to be gods!