Genetic Engineering: Giving Animals Consciousness

-A nation is truly divided when neither act of great Heroism nor deepest Tragedy can unify its citizens- What happens on the largely outside aspect of it. What sort of responses would the public and the opposition hold against the rise of new sentients. I already discussed how in the early days of the announcement of such a lab creation the world will instigate various hate groups under possibly religious pretenses or animal rights pretenses (ironic. they should read my blog) and how they can evolve. Social Media Obviously with the shared news being spread all over Facebook, Reddit, Twitter, and the like, basic groups will rise up. Anti-GMO pages would be strengthened and opinions would grow polarized. But how far would we end up going? Peaceful and Loud Oftentimes within these movements, slanderous articles and news sites from internet news columns will be shared like wildfire. I can already see the headlines now: Scientists Intend to Replace Humans , Superhu...

It seems I'm holding up a bit of a story line. Personally, that's what I wanted. Because what happens next is less scientific and more hypothetical in regards to how a person would react, how the researchers would react. And because it seems like I'm adding new tags all the time, and hardly reusing old ones. And lastly, as terrible as it sounds, how the world and media would react. After supposedly a few trials where an animal, dog, cat, tiger cub, wolf, cow, or any type of animal would affect the entire lab. "I Passed?" Brain scans are  the more obvious way to analyze the workings of what happens in the brain. MRIs, which emit radio ways to the brain in a super strong magnetic field. (Why did I include that in there? Because that was the only takeaway from a bioimaging class I had.) It would be necessary to compare the brain activities in the frontal lobe to see how well they mirror humans' brains. And of course, there would be a plethora of tests. And...