something are so clearly obvious (I don't think "obvious" is the exact word I need) that to consider them property of the intellectual kind is silly.
I'm thinking about certain mathematically expressed concepts and ideas which are nonetheless patented and treated as property nowadays; I don't see why DNA would be any different.
It's silly for anybody to "own" (with the exclusivity, royalties deserving modern way it is being done) a gene sequence.
I think that whomever has it already owns it and these things can and in reality are non-exclusively owned. because what is next? "oh you have so and so patented genes hence you must pay the owners royalties?"
I like thinking about who really owns the English (or any natural) language to try and makes sense of how it ought to be....
then again who wouldn't like to come up with some idea and then keep getting paid for this until they die? this is similar to rent-seeking, it is rent-found.
I'm thinking about certain mathematically expressed concepts and ideas which are nonetheless patented and treated as property nowadays; I don't see why DNA would be any different.
It's silly for anybody to "own" (with the exclusivity, royalties deserving modern way it is being done) a gene sequence.
I think that whomever has it already owns it and these things can and in reality are non-exclusively owned. because what is next? "oh you have so and so patented genes hence you must pay the owners royalties?"
I like thinking about who really owns the English (or any natural) language to try and makes sense of how it ought to be....
then again who wouldn't like to come up with some idea and then keep getting paid for this until they die? this is similar to rent-seeking, it is rent-found.