(May 31, 2014 at 6:41 pm)Heywood Wrote:Machine life is way far out of our current scope...(May 31, 2014 at 5:23 pm)pocaracas Wrote: I know others have told you, but I haven't been around the PC all day and I'd like to reply, too!
I did criticize your argument when I mentioned that all you have is humans building living organisms, based on all the "rules" of living organisms that humans had discovered before. But it seems your comprehension is a bit slow... huh?.. others have told you exactly the same, and yet, you keep parroting that no one is addressing your argument.
Humans are pretty close to creating machine life too. Such an achievement will not be based on the rules of living organisms.
Machine intelligence isn't that far out, but it's another beast altogether.
(May 31, 2014 at 6:41 pm)Heywood Wrote: Also it is quite likely we will invent new rules of living organisms(actually we already have....watermarks).
watermarks? What do you mean? this DNA-based watermarks using the DNA-Crypt algorithm. )
You could have gone with the 6 letter genome that was presented a few weeks ago: http://www.livescience.com/45419-first-o...tters.html. That would've been a nice try... instead... meh.
Even if you had gone with the 6-letter genome, it would have been based on the currently known genomes.... and according to the study, these extra letters are there just for show, they don't seem to be encoding any proteins:
Quote:expanding that alphabet to include artificial letters could give organisms the ability to produce new proteins never seen before in nature.
The man-made DNA could be used for everything from the manufacture of new drugs and vaccines to forensics, researchers say.
"What we have done is successfully store increased information in the DNA of a living cell," study leader Floyd Romesberg, a chemical biologist at The Scripps Research Institute in La Jolla, California, told Live Science. Yet many steps remain before Romesberg and his colleagues can get cells to produce artificial proteins.
But maybe they can... one day.
Even so, you're still only presenting humans as creators of something, from "basic" building blocks. And of course, we know humans can create things... Ever since the wheel was invented (and maybe before) that we've known this.
What we don't know is if there's anything else that has the same ability.
When you said "watermarks", were you wishing to claim there's some watermark on every earthling that shows that we're property of some extra-terrestrial entity?
