Neil Gershenfeld

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That's, again, why I say that, in a way, the most important thing made in these labs is making itself.

I can tell you my insights into how life works.

I can tell you my insights in how to make life meaningful and fulfilling and sustainable.

I have no idea what the meaning of life is, but maybe that's the meaning of life.

So you haven't said the S word yet.

Which one is that?

Singularity.

I'm not sure if Ray Kurzweil is listening, if he is.

Hi, Ray.

But I have a complex relationship with Ray because a lot of the things he projects I find annoying-

But then he does his homework, and then somewhat annoyingly, he points out how almost everything I'm doing fits on his roadmaps.

And so the question is, are we heading towards a singularity?

So I'd have to say I lean towards sigmoids rather than exponentials.

Yeah.

So sigmoids are things grow and they taper and then there can be one after it and one after it.

So, you know, I'll pass on whether there's enough of them that they diverge.

But, you know, to...

The selfish gene answer to the meaning of life is the meaning of life is the propagation of life.

And so, it was a step for atoms to assemble into a molecule, for molecules to assemble into a protocell,

for the protocell to form, to then form organelles, for the organ cells to form organs, the organs to form an organism.

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