16 Sep
2012
16 Sep
'12
10:20 a.m.
> When my cousin (David Ungar) went to teach at
Stanford (~20 years ago), he
> told me that there was a group there reverse engineering banana slugs.
> so that they can build artificial ones?
On Sun, 16 Sep 2012, Liam Proven
wrote:
That seems very unlikely to me. Artificial-life
research is nowhere
near the level of building individual bacterial cells yet, let alone
eukaryote cells - i.e., ones with a nucleus and mitochondria.
You're asking for a chainsaw from someone who hasn't yet moved from a
fragment of flint to a shaped arrowhead.
He expected me to understand that they were trying to simulate the thought
processes, not build more of them.