Reading Olivia Judson piece in the NYT gives me some hope to counteract the note below. Maybe with some Autopoietic ideas à la Varela, we can crack these Artificial Life problems.
On the other hand, this whole thing reminds me of the Babel story in the Bible. Man's hubris led him to get tangled up in DNA language. The issue is not: by trying to build a tower, so tall, that we can go to heaven, we were cursed with different languages; unable to talk to each other . Now the metaphor is: by trying to play God and starting Intelligent Design, we ended up building all kinds of life forms, that put us out of commission. A Brave New World!
Fear of the unknown is only natural.
But you know what?: here we go, whether we like it or not. This is like a black hole sucking us in, we already passed the Event Horizon. Enjoy the ride!
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