Tag: self-replication
Randy Isaac’s Critique Demonstrates the Power of Philosophical Bias
Future scientists are taught to interpret the world through a rigid conceptual grid.
Xenobots: Researchers Claim to Have Created New Form of Biological Self-Replication
Xenobots are artificially interconnected biological tissues whose arrangements are determined by some algorithm.
Self-Replication? Not Even Close
Cornell University researchers allegedly “created a machine that can build copies of itself.”
Oh-So-Close to Self-Replication
All that is left is to add a factory to the Cornell device so it can produce for itself the molecubes that humans keep building and feeding them.
Experiments on “Self-Replicating” RNA Indicate the Need for Intelligent Agency in Life’s Origin
Any evolving system of RNAs would quickly include almost exclusively RNAs that performed no biologically useful actions.