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What do you define as an "artificial physical self-replicating machine"? A genetically engineered bacterium is a self-replicating machine created via artificia
by science4sail 6y ago
What do you define as an "artificial physical self-replicating machine"?
A genetically engineered bacterium is a self-replicating machine created via artificial means that exists to effect some purpose in the physical world.
- science4sail 6y agoFor that matter, the Earth has already had a grey goo ecological disaster: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Oxidation_Event https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Oxidation_Event
- smlckz 6y ago- ''Artificial'': not naturally occuring, also not a "clone"/"fork" of something natural. - ''Physical'': not software simulation, virtual; "exist" in the same world we live in. If my original terminology is insufficient or ambiguous, please suggest better terms.