Philosophy Wire by Spiros Kakos [2011-10-16]: Scientists completed the analysis of a woman’s DNA who lived up to 115 years, in an effort to find out what made her live so long [source: BBC News]. But are we just the material from which we are made? Are we just materialistic automatic zombies? How many serious scientists would analyze how good is the “car”, without analyzing at all the “driver” ?(c) Philosophy WIRES - Commenting world news from philosophy's perspective...
