Premise
What if we could create life?
A premise in which human beings synthesize, engineer, or reanimate living things and must face the consequences.
What if we could create life? in fiction: 4 works
Victor Frankenstein assembles and animates a living creature from dead matter, the story's founding hypothesis.
Moreau surgically remakes animals into quasi-humans, testing the limits of engineered life.
The central premise is built on a scientist creating genetically engineered intelligent lymphocytes that lead to a global biological transformation.
Scientists resurrect dinosaurs from ancient DNA, the film's founding premise.
More premises
- What if machines could think?
- What if we could travel through time?
- What if we met an alien intelligence?
- What if reality were a simulation?
- What if we could live forever?
- What if civilization collapsed?
- What if we could edit the mind?
- What if the state controlled everything?
- What if we could engineer humanity?
- What if we settled other worlds?
- What if history had gone differently?
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