Shostak, Stanley

Shostak, Stanley. Becoming Immortal Combining Cloning and Stem-Cell Therapy. Albany State University of New York Press, 2002. Examines the question of whether human beings are equipped for potential immortality. 

Stanley Shostak I m reminded of Huxley s response to Wilberforce. You ve used your enormous intellect to reduce the subject to humour. I object, and I think we have a very serious crisis in our culture, and while we might find it amusing it s going to be devastating unless we have an alternative. So let me be reductionist for a moment and remind you that in Code of Codes Watson explains that he appealed to Congress for support because he knew that the politicians wanted to be able to advertise that they... 

Stanley Shostak Larry Holmes said that Krebs was the worst commentator on his own history, he s totally unreliable about everything he ever accomplished. 

Stanley Shostak We have no alternative to the linearity of reductionism, and I m saying there must be an alternative - let us be synthetic, let us be creative. What is the alternative if you are saying there is no synthesis There must be an alternative that is non-synthetic. 

Stanley Shostak We re not engaging in self-fulfilling prophecies but in new ways of non-linear thinking. 

Stanley Shostak I m not a holist, I ve read Kessler and I ve read the Frankfurt School and I dissociate myself from the holists. 

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