No. That isn't printing life, that is taking already living cells, priming and transforming them into something useful. Regardless, I'd count it if we could make an entire living organism this way, but we cant. Creating a working organ is no doubt amazing, and proof that this technology is worth pursuing, but it isn't "printing life" any more than producing life saving drugs is.
In your example you are talking about being able to bioprint a person(they have to be a person to have that right) to squat a property. Bio printing an organ isn't an example of that, it's not even close. Saying that we are anywhere near being able to print a human to squat a property is pretty ridiculous.
> No. That isn't printing life, that is taking already living cells, priming and transforming them into something useful.
Which is absolutely sufficient for the usage I described upthread. In fact, I'd go so far as to say it's mandatory for the point I was making, as — fun though bio-printed werewolves, dragons, and fae would be — my point only works if you get humans out of the process rather than some other species. A bioprinted horse is probably slightly harder than a bioprinted human, but the latter isn't getting any squatting rights.
I could've linked to work on synthetic genomes and nucleotides to give evidence for lower-level creation of live, but they don't matter for the same reason:
My point is that there's a pathway heading off into the distance, and somewhere in the distance but before the horizon can be found bio-printed humans with all the same moral issues we're now just beginning to taking seriously thanks to AI being conversational, and if we had something completely customised, that's cool and all, but it doesn't make anyone go "oh, they're people" the way a humanoid body with human DNA getting off a table saying "hello, nice to meet you" does.
> In your example you are talking about being able to bioprint a person(they have to be a person to have that right) to squat a property. Bio printing an organ isn't an example of that, it's not even close. Saying that we are anywhere near being able to print a human to squat a property is pretty ridiculous.
I wrote "an entity fully 3D printed out of tissue […] is a way off, but it's foreseeable" and compared bio-printing today to a nearly 50 year old computer, and one of my references was a link to a youtube channel where someone is attempting to do a small-scale prototype thing along these lines with a handful of organs made from mouse cells grown in his own lab (and mouse cells rather than human because of the disease risk not because something magic happens with human cells). You're mixing up what I think is foreseeable with what I say already exists, and using the nonexistence of what I think can be foreseen to argue against what does exist.
No. That isn't printing life, that is taking already living cells, priming and transforming them into something useful. Regardless, I'd count it if we could make an entire living organism this way, but we cant. Creating a working organ is no doubt amazing, and proof that this technology is worth pursuing, but it isn't "printing life" any more than producing life saving drugs is.
In your example you are talking about being able to bioprint a person(they have to be a person to have that right) to squat a property. Bio printing an organ isn't an example of that, it's not even close. Saying that we are anywhere near being able to print a human to squat a property is pretty ridiculous.