RE: What It Could Mean To Have Artificial Wombs
Personally this is an awful idea - artificial by definition means false and thats what it is - its takes away the special bond that pregnancy and motherhood brings. Those 9 months is the time when 'mothers' are made emotionally as well as physically, when the growing of a child inside could never be replaced by a machine. The delivery of your child is so emotional and where the 'bond' between parents is defined further.
"But to want to adopt this technology just because you deem pregnancy an inconvenience to your lifestyle? Is that such a good idea?" - this in my opinion is all wrong with society as a whole - to not want to stop to have children naturally but to have the convenience of 'growing one in a cyndrical vacuum' down the road and to collect it as part of your shopping trip that day, seems so wrong to me.
I am not entirely sure that 'artificial' necessarily means 'false'. Admittedly, in most cases the term does mean exactly that. For example, most people would say artificial grass is not really grass. But what about 'artificial intelligence'? This might refer to some software trick which fakes intelligent behaviour (such as those chat bots which you can converse with but don't really understand language) but it could also refer to a robot that has as much ability to learn as a person, if not more. Why should that kind of artificial intelligence be considered false?
the definition of artificial artificial |ɑːtɪˈfɪʃ(ə)l|
adjective
1 made or produced by human beings rather than occurring naturally, especially as a copy of something natural:
• (of a situation or concept) not existing naturally; contrived or false:
Artificial intelligence - not sure on that to be honest - personally AI robots good for certain situation, in manufactoring, surgery, bom disposal, ....but I think there has to be a limit on where this 'growth industry' goes. I dont know to much about it so cant give a debateable answer.