Journal 2

Biomedical engineering, which is the combination of engineering and medicine and human biology, is a very broad and new field. And it also causes many ethical issues in different fields.

Now, I want to answer the third question.

Personally speaking, I think a person with a prosthetic body part can also be considered as fully man. What’s more, I think there should be no limit to the number of fake parts in a human body as long as he has his own brain.

For example, it is quite normal that we can see some people with artificial limbs. They lose their own part of body, and the biomedical engineering gives them an artificial one. Is there any different of them to be a human? I think the answer is no. They can do almost everything as us, and they have the right to be respected and protected. There is no doubt that they should be treated as human.

As for the demarcation line between human and non-human, I think the brain is the most important part. Because the difference between human and robots is that human can think but robots can’t. Because of the brain of human, we can think and control our body. But robots can only do everything based on the programs we set for them, and they don’t have mind and emotion. So I insist that as long as the person has his own brain, no matter how many prosthetic items he has, he should be considered as a human.

In addition, I think for those people who have non-human body part, we should be kind and friendly to them. They are the group between normal people and disabled people or even they are the disabled people. They need our help and love, and they deserve it.