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Intelligent Life? Implications of Biotechnology
How Genetic Code Works Juan Enriquez presentation:
http://www.ted.com/index.php/talks/view/id/80
Genetic Code “sequenced” by huge computers
Syntax of the code is critical Can reprogram cells to re-
grow organs and alter species
An apple is an “application” that executes a program
We Already Work with Code Open the source code of a web page
This code tells the browser how to display a web pageGenetic Code
What Applications Do We Already Know?
Photoshop – PowerPoint are “executables”
Word Macro Recorder can generate code
We Now Realize That:Genetic Code is Identical
It is “decodable” – because it has meaning
It is more than just complex – it is intentionally structured “to do”
-- not simply “to be” An Application executes Consider: Did genetic
code begin to execute by chance?
Is Evolution Sufficient? Evolution can account for life’s complexity But evolution posits a “replicator”
Richard Dawkins “The Selfish Gene” A “Replicator” is an application It is a program, not a file It is Being for Itself
- Sartre
A Dose of Reality
Nazis Used Computers and Genetics to Control Europe
Embraced Eugenics and Social Darwinism
Kaiser Wilhelm Institute Supported by Rockefeller Foundation Verschuer and Mengele
experimented with twins The First Computers: IBM
Hollerith Machines Supported by IBM NY – not just
Germany Used for census – locate “inferiors” Created racial database – sort and
filter Helped run railroads and death
camps Source: Edwin Black – “IBM and the
Holocaust” and “The War Against the Weak”
What does it mean?What does it mean?
This is Not an Argument for Intelligent Design
This is about more than complexity – it’s about programming An anthropomorphic Creator solves nothing In terms of code, God is like a variable seeking a value Parables make sense from a modern perspective
Noah’s Ark = backup up data? As an application (we) can give the variable value as we execute our lives
The Limits of Logic From a virus to an
apple, Life is programmed
What made the first virus replicate, and begin the evolutionary process?
An Accident or… A very primitive Decision? An Application is an
entirely different being from an object
Being = Intelligence Science must begin to
address this fact
A Modest Proposal
Drop destructive primitive theologies
Understand the implications of science to avoid subjugation
Accept the reality of higher intelligence
Force scientific dogma to account for the mind
Death = Blue Screen = Reboot?