Synthetic Biologists create smallest living 'cell' so far...

[Taffin]

13 Monkeys, or I Am Legend, anyone?

http://gizmodo.com/mad-scientists-created-synthetic-bacteria-with-only-473-1766686722

Behold syn3.0, a synthetic bacterial genome that’s smaller than anything found in nature. Biologists hope it will further our understanding of the fundamentals of life and inspire the creation of new synthetic life.

Dubbed JCVI-syn3.0 (or just syn3.0 for short), the new genome was designed and built by researchers from Synthetic Genomics and the J. Craig Venter Institute. It’s known as a “radically minimalist” genome because it has just 473 genes—the minimal number required for this bacterial cell to sustain the most basic functions of life, including reproduction. The details of this extraordinary achievement can now be found in the latest edition of Science

[Dave D]

I hope this turns out better than Microsoft AI twitter bot.

[Coffeed]

It was human tissue over a metal endoskeleton.

[Taffin]

I hope this turns out better than Microsoft AI twitter bot.

Lol, yes it turned into a GeBigger in 24hrs 

[_aj_]

Connect the dots for me here. What does this have to do with finally getting some size on my calves?

[Coffeed]

Connect the dots for me here. What does this have to do with finally getting some size on my calves?

Arnold knows a good guy. Ask Louie. Might set you back a couple 20's.

[Tapeworm]

J. Craig Venter

Kept offering me cocaine and asking if I wanted to see his Burmese bedspread.  Really weird dude.  Who wears denim with suede?  Answer: J. Craig Venter.  That's who.

[Kahn.N.Singh]

I actually have a paper in progress on the connection between Venter and Kant, Hegel, Darwin (and other evo guys), and Dewey. It argues that John Dewey's pragmatism, understood under its Hegelian and Darwininan influences, can offer a framework for recent innovations in synthetic biology. Namely, it argues that the capacity for advances in social evolution (rational, conceptual thought) to "speed up" human evolution (natural, biological material) from its former "glacial pace" (this is Venter's main claim) can be attributed to the "intrinsic purposiveness" of rationality, which begins in nature, to eventually control and shape nature to its own image (this is Dewey's pragmatic blend of Kantian-Hegelian-Darwinianism). It's been put on hold because of more pressing stuff, but I look forward to getting back to it, perhaps in the summer.

Always 5-8 texts and 10-15 articles per month. Will soon be taking a break from this kind of reading/prep to play around with the relation (if any) between these two texts for about 3 weeks:

So, in addition to the Darwin and evo stuff, add:

[Yamcha]

https://www.facebook.com/mediatakeout/videos/1245839162114695/

[Taffin]

Connect the dots for me here. What does this have to do with finally getting some size on my calves?

Synthetic organic nanobots maybe?  22nd Century bodybuilding may be bio-programmable!  

(ps - thx for making this bodybuilding related  )

[Taffin]

Namely, it argues that the capacity for advances in social evolution (rational, conceptual thought) to "speed up" human evolution (natural, biological material) from its former "glacial pace" (this is Venter's main claim) can be attributed to the "intrinsic purposiveness" of rationality, which begins in nature, to eventually control and shape nature to its own image (this is Dewey's pragmatic blend of Kantian-Hegelian-Darwinianism).

In a very much boiled down sentence, one of the comments in the article I initially cited seems to partially echo that sentiment:

"Rick Fitz ThisNameIsAnAlias 3/24/16 6:41pm
We are just wetware expressions of biological software, and the emergent consciousness conferred by that code, which is allowing us create hardware that will do the same thing."

[Fortress]

Who cares.

Humans will just fuck shit up with the technology.

We're pathetic and way too corruptible.