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Kate Adamala on Synthetic Biology, Origins of Life, and Bioethics

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Is There a Lineage of Information in Artificial Life?

No matter how wacky the artificial life forms we can create they are nonetheless part of this informational lineage that shares a common ancestry with everything else on earth. We're not actually reinventing a wheel from scratch we're just building a wheel from a different material. And it's gonna be a different wheel it's gonna spin differently but it's still a wheel. So in that sense we're incapable of making something that's completely different because we're not itWe don't even know if it's possible. Even now that we're you're switching to intelligence done by computers you think it would be fundamental different but it isn't because we made it and the same with any form of artificial life as

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