Question

ethical issues with chimeras
inserting cells from one organism into another host organism has the potential to alter the cognitive and affective capacities of the host animal. it seems very likely that as technology becomes more sophisticated, this technique could increase the intelligence of organisms and could alter their capacity for positive and negative feelings. because the cognitive life of an organism and the species of an organism are often tied to their moral status, the moral status of a neural chimera - and correspondingly the wrongness of subjecting that chimera to involuntary experimentation, suffering, and death that would follow from this status - cannot be assumed to be equivalent to the moral status of a typical adult member of the host species.
if we combine neural cells from 2 different organisms to create a neural chimera, this raises the question: what ethical standards should we apply to the new organism? should we

Explanation:

The text discusses ethical implications of creating chimeras, specifically neural chimeras, due to potential changes in cognitive and affective capacities and the resulting impact on moral status and ethical standards for experimentation.

Answer:

The main issue is determining appropriate ethical standards for neural chimeras considering their altered moral status.