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Synthetic Life

Science & Futurism with Isaac Arthur

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Synthetic Life - What Is It?

A critical notion of synthetic life is that it is made by merging two or more things together. A person with a tooth filling would be a very simple example of a synthetic life orm to the point of being trivial. Like giving someone productive organs they were not born with, you have made something new. We might see an entirely synthetic ecosystem too, when created to that environment.

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