Comments on: Researchers build largest biochemical circuit out of small synthetic DNA molecules

By: largest biochemical circuit at VOX DEI

largest biochemical circuit at VOX DEI — Sun, 05 Jun 2011 21:36:02 +0000

[...] kurzweilai [...]

By: SuicidalWormPoo

SuicidalWormPoo — Sat, 04 Jun 2011 16:38:01 +0000

Not necessarily true. While biology is complex, we do have the tools to understand it. It’s simple a question of just how complex, eg. how long it will take to get all the data. Not only do we need to catalog and find out the purpose of every gene and protein (though many are redundant), we also need to build working simulations of the brains and organs, as well as individual cells. Biological immortality might be beyond ours (and maybe, all life’s) reach, but between man and machine, it could be quite possible.

By: sdixon

sdixon — Sat, 04 Jun 2011 13:19:08 +0000

Wouldn’t it be interesting if in a billion years, machine based intelligent, and self aware life looked back at today and thought of us as the “biological soup” precursors that they evolved from?

By: MysticMonkeyGuru

MysticMonkeyGuru — Sat, 04 Jun 2011 04:25:05 +0000

@SuicidalWormPoo
That doesn’t mean that we’ll have immortality by 2045, however. Biology is so extraordinarily complex that even the tools of the next few decades just won’t cut it.

By: SuicidalWormPoo

SuicidalWormPoo — Fri, 03 Jun 2011 12:41:58 +0000

As Ray Kurzweil pointed out, the exponential growth in technology not only applies, but actually gets faster. Soon DNA Nanotechnology will be doubling every year, and even faster and faster. The rate in which new breakthrough’s are made are clear and almost terrifying signs that the Singularity is coming, and fast.