Regenesis: How Synthetic Biology Will Reinvent Nature and Ourselves

This loss can be partially compensated for by inheritance of cultural (non-DNA) artifacts,

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human knowledge and computer knowledge, either by the optimal use of existing senses or by means of multi-electrode neuronal input and output.

In species that learn, a lifetime of experience is lost at death.

The website biohack.sourceforge.net, for example, offers an “open, free synthetic biology kit [that] contains all sorts of information from across the web on how to do it: how to extract and amplify DNA, cloning techniques, making DNA by what’s known as oligonucleotides, and all sorts of other tutorials and documents on techniques in genetic engine

So we’d like to either speed up education or slow down decay once a person is educated. The former might be made possible by making more rapid and accurate bridges between

Today, anyone can go to PersonalGenomes.org and view my public profile,

multicellularity tends to come with a hard consequence—you give up your immortality.

An Institution for the Amateur Biologist (diybio.org).