Bizarre Creatures Are World's First Self-Replicating 'Living Robots', Scientists Say

basic ingredients for systems that could devise and improvise solutions to living that are emergent, versatile, adaptive, and robust. The new picture dispels the long-standing idea that living systems must be regarded as machines.

. Die Forscher, die es einst vorschlugen, wollen jetzt verhindern, dass es jemals Realität wird. Im Dezember haben sie im Fachblatt Science dazu aufgerufen, Schritte zu ergreifen, um die Erschaffung einer Spiegelzelle zu verhindern. Denn sollte Spiegelleben jemals geschaffen werden, so glauben sie, könnte das katastrophale Konsequenzen haben. Im sc

autopoiesis (or self-replication) occurs only in living systems. It is found nowhere in the cosmos, but only in the bios. It’s a major and profound emergent—

In principle, one could imagine a species whose genes were unable to replicate, but instead were adapted to keep their physical form unchanged by continual self-maintenance and by protecting themselves from external influences.

I believe that, given the right conditions, replicators automatically band together to create systems, or machines, that carry them around and work to favour their continued replication.