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| ZerkonXXXX... |
 Posted: Tue Jun 09, 2009 6:55 am |
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On Mon, 08 Jun 2009 18:53:29 -0700, extropy1 wrote:
[quote:a36eb3b001]For the world of our own making has become so complicated ....
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Oh my, our world is so complicated but....
[quote:a36eb3b001]......... bioengineers employ more precise and powerful control.
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they have a handle on all of it, thank goodness or is it laws of god-ness?
Is it too obvious here to mention that bioengineering is now so driven by
profit and greed it is impossible to see a clear bottom line to it as a
beneficial applied science? In short, search: "GM Crops"
There is a persistent myth that capital 'S'cience and capital
'T'echnology are things that emerge from some White Light Cathedral of
blinding human brilliance which 'we', the onlookers, can only be dazzled
by and thankful for.
Here Kevin Kelly goes on about 'one soul', 'vivisystems', 'postmodern
metaphors' and a "neo-biological civilization but not one word given to
patent rights, sources of grant money, corporate and military involvement
in all of this which do make up, in part at least, the unifying
principles which he calls "laws of god".
This is an unfortunate yet now classic neglect which 'we' can no longer
afford. Dazzling visions of the near future obfuscate the reality of the
very here and now from which this future can only come. This is only bio-
logical. |
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| John Jones |
| Posted: Tue Jun 09, 2009 10:47 am |
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extropy1 at (no spam) hotmail.com wrote:
[quote:0fe342bad3]Biological machine can feel and reproduce;
...the marriage of the born and the made. By extracting the logical
principle of both life and machines, and applying each to the task of
building extremely complex systems, technicians are conjuring up
contraptions that are at once both made and alive.
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Not so much conjuring with contraptions, but conjuring with failed
metaphors like "biological machine". |
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