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ANALOGY. “Synthetic chemistry is the ability to create and put together chemical compounds which are not found in nature; it has given us the ability not only better understand the theory of chemical phenomena, but it has also allowed us to create new materials and chemicals which are of great use to industry and technology.” https://lnkd.in/etiQ6T7 View in LinkedIn

FRESH EYES. “In addition to providing new ways to study the biological phenomena associated with life here on Earth, life-as-we-know-it, Artificial Life allows us to extend our studies to the larger domain of "bio-logic" of possible life, life-as-it-could-be. (Chris G. Langton (Artificial Life II).” https://lnkd.in/etiQ6T7 View in LinkedIn

NEW BIOLOGY. “Building life from its very basic building blocks--the things we know that life requires such as an energy source--might help us in finding out the principles and characteristics of life in general. Thus we can have a broader, more diverse base of information from which we can better understand what life truly is.” https://lnkd.in/etiQ6T7 View in LinkedIn

DEFINITIONAL TRAP. “The major advantage of looking at life from this perspective is that by recreating life in a different medium, we are not limited to our own system of carbon-based life. Biology is the study of life, but on Earth we only have access to carbon-based life; and trying to define life by examining only carbon-based life is like trying to derive general principles from specific examples.” https://lnkd.in/etiQ6T7 View in LinkedIn

NO COMPLACENCY. “If we are right the advent of artificial life is the greatest challenge facing humanity, an inevitability that we must shape and set in motion in the proper direction. If the future is to do justice to the nobler attributes of humanity then we must take positive action.” https://lnkd.in/dMvAeqz View in LinkedIn

CREATING OUR SUCCESSORS. “We now have the possibility to create cultural and biological diversity. With the advent of artificial life, we may be the first species to create its own successors.” https://lnkd.in/dMvAeqz View in LinkedIn

ARTIFICIAL LIFE FORMS. "At first, they will be quite unsophisticated, simple tools that we have built to satisfy our needs. Ultimately, however, economic and political pressures will drive artificial life forms to greater degrees of sophistication, until their complexity and information processing capabilities are comparable or superior to those of humans. This may engender competition with humans.” https://lnkd.in/dMvAeqz View in LinkedIn

LAMARCKIAN HARDWARE. “Assuming that artificial life forms become dominant in the far future, this transition to Lamarckian evolution of hardware will enact another major change in the global rate of evolution, comparable to the enormous acceleration that occurred with the advent of culture.” https://lnkd.in/dMvAeqz View in LinkedIn

ADDITIVE EVOLUTION. “The human species has made an enormous amount of progress since evolving around fifty thousand years ago. This is because we can pass on knowledge and infrastructure from previous generations. This is a type of self-improvement, but it is not recursive. If we never learned to modify our own brains, then we would eventually reach the point where making new discoveries required more knowledge than could be gained in a human lifetime.” https://lnkd.in/dpPHp3a View in LinkedIn

STEP JUMP. “The introduction of culture, with its more rapid mechanism of Lamarckian evolution, can be viewed as a watershed event in the history of evolution as a whole - a "phase change" accelerating the global evolutionary process.” https://lnkd.in/dMvAeqz View in LinkedIn