I suspect the day-to-day tedium (or perceived tedium) of biology turns off more people than a lack of big-picture dreams. Suppose you dream of regrowing limbs. How will you actually be spending your days?
There’s also the cultural pushback—the ick factor, the Frankenstein fear, Leon Kass’s “wisdom of repugnance”—against anything too big in biology. People find big biological dreams much creepier than big dreams involving inanimate objects.
I suspect the day-to-day tedium (or perceived tedium) of biology turns off more people than a lack of big-picture dreams. Suppose you dream of regrowing limbs. How will you actually be spending your days?
There’s also the cultural pushback—the ick factor, the Frankenstein fear, Leon Kass’s “wisdom of repugnance”—against anything too big in biology. People find big biological dreams much creepier than big dreams involving inanimate objects.