Neil Gershenfeld

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It's every bit as profound as the cognition in our brain, but now this is sort of thinking in molecular thinking in how you design.

And so I'd say the most fundamental problem we're working on is

It's kind of tautological that when you design a phone, you design the phone, you represent the design of the phone.

But that actually fails when you get to the sort of complexity that we're talking about.

And so there's this profound transition to come.

Once I can have self-reproducing assemblers placing 10 to the 18 parts, you need to not sort of metaphorically, but create life

in that you need to learn how to evolve, but evolutionary design has a really misleading, trivial meaning.

It's not as simple as you randomly mutate things.

It's this much more deep embodiment of AI and morphogenesis.

You mean for human augmentation or?

So,

Ultimately, absolutely, if you add up everything I'm talking about, it's building up to creating life in non-living materials.

Yes.

I don't view this as copying life.

I view it as deriving life.

I didn't start from how does biology work and then I'm going to copy it.

I start from how to solve problems and then it leads me to, in a sense, rediscover biology.

So if you go back to Valentina in Ghana making her circuit board,

She still needs a chip fab very far away to make the processor on her circuit board.

For her to make the processor locally, for all the reasons we described, you actually need the deep things we were just talking about.

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