this topic leaves me wordless, but
a question or comment...is there any
direction developing or where might one develop to integrate this new non living species manufacture with, say, Bateson's notions of blind person and cane...that they form a third entity, non binary system and human patterning?
On May 7, 2011, at 1:08 PM, roger malina <rmalina@alum.mit.edu> wrote:
> yasminers
>
> no one seems to have picked up on my previous topic\
> on the shifting boundary between living and non living
> systems
>
> until now the only forms of life on this planete are those
> that are derived via darwinian evolution for the primordial
> soup as they say
>
> in 2010 a new life form was perhaps created, the first
> in 5 billion years
>
> Updated: Oct 18, 2010
>
> http://www.optimalfunctioning.com/science/creation-first-artificial-life-form-synthetic-cell-craig-venter.html#Q&A%20on%20What%20Synthetic%20Life%20Actually%20Means
>
> A brand new living cell and the beginning of an era for artificial
> life forms! It's official, J. Craig
> Venter and his team have created the first self-replicating synthetic
> cell with a completely man-made
> set of genetic instructions—a never before existing bacteria species
> has joined the ranks of the living.
>
> http://www.optimalfunctioning.com/research/gibson-et-al-2010-creation-of-bacterial-cell-controlled-by-chemically-synthesized-genome.html
>
> The cultural implcations of this new step will no doubt take decades
> if not centuries to be integrated
> into our deep views on living systems.
>
> Roger
>
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