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Yes, but with a twist: this giant machine worries about its future, its kids, its wealth, its financial assets.
by perfecthjrjth 4y ago
Yes, but with a twist: this giant machine worries about its future, its kids, its wealth, its financial assets.
- version_five 4y agoOr tricked into worrying about that as a control signal to perform its main task in service of its microorganism operators ;)
- jvanderbot 4y agoNobody in this thread has read Selfish Gene, apparently. That's the whole point of the book: That genes may as well have invented all of life to propagate themselves. In this context, species conflict is like fleets of world-ships fighting total war.
- ok_dad 4y agoThat’s an interesting SciFi idea: the real world is digital, and digital beings have created a physical world to fight battle via genetic biological machines, which are effectively concrete data structures.
- redanddead 4y agolike the scene in Jurassic park
- markdown 4y ago"It's a Unix system. I know this!"?
- theGnuMe 4y agoGenes are effectively biological computer programs.
- sapiol 4y agoSomehow akin to a fork-bomb
- sapiol 4y ago> That genes may as well have invented all of life to propagate themselves. I think the point of the book was, that genes didn't invent anything. They were just the first self-replicating molecules. Everything else had to happen, because they were forced to exist and compete with clones and mutating clones of themselve – a game which we call life today.
- hgomersall 4y agoWhich is all subservient to its actual main task of increasing entropy. I've found myself cycling down the street wondering if my actions were all just an elaborate way of increasing entropy more quickly.
- ww520 4y agoAll those are just for satisfying the urge to reproduce.
- 11235813213455 4y agomy machine just worries about food, and work to get food