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Are we on the brink of creating artificial life? .....
dailymail.co.uk ^ | 11/27/14 | By JONATHAN O'CALLAGHAN

Posted on 11/27/2014 8:59:53 AM PST by GrandJediMasterYoda

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1 posted on 11/27/2014 8:59:53 AM PST by GrandJediMasterYoda
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To: GrandJediMasterYoda

It’s obvious to me the answer is “No”.


2 posted on 11/27/2014 9:02:09 AM PST by Dalberg-Acton
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To: Dalberg-Acton
What possibly could go wrong?
3 posted on 11/27/2014 9:02:43 AM PST by fhayek
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To: GrandJediMasterYoda

No, but obviously the effort is keeping some crazy people off the street, so that’s good ...


4 posted on 11/27/2014 9:03:41 AM PST by Tax-chick (Two more days to get ready for the Advent Kitteh!)
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To: GrandJediMasterYoda

so they created an artificial democrat.......


5 posted on 11/27/2014 9:04:06 AM PST by MeshugeMikey ("Never, Never, Never, Give Up," Winston Churchill ><>)
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To: GrandJediMasterYoda

Get your own dirt.


6 posted on 11/27/2014 9:04:40 AM PST by Jim Robinson (Resistance to tyrants is obedience to God!!)
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To: Jim Robinson

+1


7 posted on 11/27/2014 9:06:24 AM PST by ClearCase_guy (Democrats have a lynch mob mentality. They always have.)
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To: GrandJediMasterYoda
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8 posted on 11/27/2014 9:06:39 AM PST by dragonblustar (I'm a sinner so I'll say it.)
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To: GrandJediMasterYoda
It is the simplest organism we know of but has similarities to humans

Obviously, all the traits of a democrat.

There are two kinds of humans: democrats, and all the others with brains bigger than that of worms.
9 posted on 11/27/2014 9:08:22 AM PST by adorno (a)
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To: GrandJediMasterYoda

It all depends on what the definition of life is. If the definition is “Self replicating information” it has already happened. It’s called a computer virus.


10 posted on 11/27/2014 9:09:56 AM PST by Nateman (If liberals are not screaming you are doing it wrong!)
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To: Jim Robinson

Amen.


11 posted on 11/27/2014 9:10:12 AM PST by left that other site (You shall know the Truth, and The Truth Shall Set You Free.)
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To: GrandJediMasterYoda

http://www.amazon.com/Our-Final-Invention-Artificial-Intelligence/dp/0312622376

Interesting read on AI and its potential impacts (lots of way out there theories, but a quick, neat read)..


12 posted on 11/27/2014 9:11:19 AM PST by Ghost of SVR4 (So many are so hopelessly dependent on the government that they will fight to protect it.)
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13 posted on 11/27/2014 9:11:55 AM PST by martin_fierro (< |:)~)
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The brain of a worm and the body of a robot:

Wasn't that done years ago?

14 posted on 11/27/2014 9:13:38 AM PST by Pollster1 ("Shall not be infringed" is unambiguous.)
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To: Jim Robinson

First thing I thought of.


15 posted on 11/27/2014 9:14:54 AM PST by dfwgator
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Scientists digitise the brain of a WORM and place it inside a robot

Well, I knew the Democratic field for 2016 was pretty thin, but I didn't realize they were going this far to find a candidate.

16 posted on 11/27/2014 9:15:26 AM PST by GreenHornet
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To: GrandJediMasterYoda

Seems to me it would have to be able to reproduce to be considered life.

Why go for a worm, why not an amoeba? Guess they thought a worm would be more impressive... /Not


17 posted on 11/27/2014 9:16:13 AM PST by babygene
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There is a school of thought that the universe itself is a vast computer. At the quantum level, particles sequentially hover between ‘existing’ and ‘not existing’ - setting up a cosmic binary system. “Life”, it is postulated, is a computer virus that has been introduced into the system, creating all sorts of havoc.


18 posted on 11/27/2014 9:16:14 AM PST by fhayek
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To: GrandJediMasterYoda

There are plenty of robots with the brains of worms crawling atound in Washington, DC. What’s new about that?


19 posted on 11/27/2014 9:18:07 AM PST by WorkingClassFilth
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So! We, the scientists, are endeavoring to create artificial life, and at the same time, we, the Godless, are, through abortion and euthanasia, endeavoring to end natural life.


20 posted on 11/27/2014 9:19:30 AM PST by Parmy
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