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#380 – Neil Gershenfeld: Self-Replicating Robots and the Future of Fabrication
Lex Fridman Podcast
The Importance of Geometry in Biology
You've said that geometry is really important in biology. What does fabrication biology look like? Why is geometry important? So molecular biology is dominated by geometry. That's why the protein folding is so important. And there's this hierarchical construction of as you go through primary secret tertiary quaternary, the shapes of the molecules make the shape of the molecular machines. You can't just fail. You have to do your homework before the fail part and you have to do the aim part after the fail part. I view part of what the fab lab network is doing is giving more people the opportunity to fail.
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