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1ST TYPE of self-mutating computer virus: "Polymorphic viruses are capable of changing its encryption key and generating new instances of their decryption routines with simple obfuscation transformations, such as nop-insertion, code transposition and register reassignment.” https://lnkd.in/dEVUYUW View in LinkedIn

FALSE DEFINITIONS. “Computer viruses and genetic engineering are a reality, a tangible demonstration that artificial life is not only the subject for science fiction. However, neither of these are self-sufficient life forms; both computer viruses and genetically engineered life forms require human beings to create them. This does not say that they are not alive - there are many natural organisms that cannot exist without other organisms.” https://lnkd.in/dMvAeqz View in LinkedIn

“FIFTH generation viruses are self-mutating viruses. They infect other systems with modified versions of themselves.” https://lnkd.in/dEVUYUW View in LinkedIn

BEWARE. “One Nobel Laureate said: Well, there’s no way we’re going to see self-replicating nano-technological entities for at least 100 years. And I then replied that: Yes, that’s actually a reasonable estimate of how much work it will take–it’ll take 100 years of progress, at today’s rate of progress, to get self-replicating nanotechnological entities. But the rate of progress is not going to remain at today’s rate, and I’ll be showing you some charts of what’s happening to the rate of “paradigm shifts”; it’s doubling every decade. We will make 100 years of progress, at today’s rate, in 25 years.” http://www.kurzweilai.net/the-human-machine-merger-why-we-will-spend-most-of-our-time-in-virtual-reality-in-the-twenty-first-century View in LinkedIn

SPONTANEOUS MUTATION. “What if, instead, malware were able to change its function or behavior autonomously? What if, in the absence of human intervention, computer viruses resembled biological viruses in their ability to adapt to new defense technologies as soon as they came into effect?” http://arxiv.org/pdf/1111.2503 View in LinkedIn

LEAPING BOUNDS. “As computers become more prevalent, more complex, and more highly interconnected, we suspect that so will computer viruses. Eventually it is likely that a computer virus will be created with 'a robust capacity to evolve, that will progress far beyond its initial form.” https://lnkd.in/dMvAeqz View in LinkedIn

ARTIFICIAL EVOLUTION. “Human-induced characteristics of computer viruses are not terribly interesting. However, computer viruses that do mutate without human input are an entirely different story. This is the artificial life. Autonomously mutating computer code is subject to artificial evolution, and can potentially evolve very quickly.” https://lnkd.in/dhEdXSq View in LinkedIn

THE QUESTION. “If we ever make contact with life from other planets, will our science of biology help us understand it?" https://lnkd.in/dMvAeqz View in LinkedIn

NEW LIFE FORMS. “Within the next century we will likely witness the introduction on earth of living organisms originally designed in large part by humans, but with the capability to reproduce and evolve just as- natural organisms do.” https://lnkd.in/dMvAeqz View in LinkedIn

ARTIFICIAL CAMBRIAN EXPLOSION. “The advent of artificial life will be the most significant historical event since the emergence of human beings. The impact on humanity and the biosphere could be enormous, larger than the industrial revolution, nuclear weapons, or environmental pollution.” https://lnkd.in/dMvAeqz View in LinkedIn