合成生物学与风险社会:一项社会存在论分析

Synthetic Biology and Risky Society:An Analysis of Social Ontology

合成生物学的出现与发展,是运用社会存在论分析所应用的场景,集中体现了现代社会之为风险社会的创造性、不确定性与开放性等特征。合成生物学试图打破自然的限制,进一步为有机生命赋能,在设计生命的意义上创造生命,合成新的生物系统。这一生命技术在具体科学研究中将生物学推向新的发展阶段,通过生物工程、化学工程以及信息工程等试图描绘“最好的可能世界”。这一系列技术逻辑的演绎与应用,需要进一步从价值规范和应用伦理等方面进行人文反思。

The emergence and development of synthetic biology is the scenario for the application of social ontology.It focuses on the creativity,uncertainty and openness that characterize modern society as risky society.Synthetic biology attempts to break the limits of nature and further empower organic life,creating life in the sense of designing life and synthesizing new biological systems.This life technology has taken biology to a new stage of development in specific scientific research,trying to depict the"best possible world"through biological engineering,chemical engineering and information engineering.Furthermore,the interpretation and application of this series of technological logic requires humanistic reflection in terms of value norms and application ethics.