Re:Self-Assembly Shows Promise for Extending Moore’s Law
by lukeschlather on Saturday July 12, 2014 @06:48PM
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Bacteria aren't capable of spontaneously organizing into multi-celled organisms when they reach critical mass.
Fungi behave much more like this. The thing we don't have an example of in nature is an intelligent creature capable of making tools that can reproduce itself from a single cell. It's definitely a hard engineering problem, but it's conceivable. It's also conceivable that such an entity could seek out and remove any malfunctioning sub-entities.
We humans actually behave a lot like that, it's just that you need at least a whole human to grow another human. It's not so strange to imagine a designed, intelligent creature that can regrow itself from a small piece.
Fungi behave much more like this. The thing we don't have an example of in nature is an intelligent creature capable of making tools that can reproduce itself from a single cell. It's definitely a hard engineering problem, but it's conceivable. It's also conceivable that such an entity could seek out and remove any malfunctioning sub-entities.
We humans actually behave a lot like that, it's just that you need at least a whole human to grow another human. It's not so strange to imagine a designed, intelligent creature that can regrow itself from a small piece.