I found the juxtaposition of the following two quotes to be thought provoking at the very least: > "It’s very non-intuitive. It looks very simple, but it’s not

I found the juxtaposition of the following two quotes to be thought provoking at the very least: > "It’s very non-intuitive. It looks very simple, but it’s not something a human engineer would come up with." and > These millimeter-sized living machines, entirely contained in a laboratory, easily extinguished, and vetted by federal, state and institutional ethics experts, “are not what keep me awake at night. (...)” says UVM’s Bongard. “This is an ideal system in which to study self-replicating systems. We have a moral imperative to understand the conditions under which we can control it, direct it, douse it, exaggerate it.”