Sublime

The thing that at the time was on many of my colleagues’ minds as a new kind of inquiry—the kind of fashionable kick that so often appears to stimulate our intellectual life—was technological innovation, what Schumpeter called “the gale of creative destruction,” or, more simply, what happens when you change the machinery.

Evolution advances by taking available resources and cobbling them together to create new uses.

but now we tend to think more in terms of fertile circumstances, wherein uncountable numbers of minds contribute to a river of innovation.

He went on to rethink modern architecture from a biological perspective and later publicly broke with the environmental movement over nuclear power and GMO food.

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

Tatum pelted colonies of E. coli with enough X-rays to kill 9,999 of every 10,000 bacteria. Among the few survivors he discovered mutants that could grow only if he supplied them with a particular amino acid. Helped along, the mutants could even reproduce, and their offspring were just as crippled. Tatum had gotten the same results as he had with b

So rather than asking how life arose on Earth, Cronin is asking How does life arise, period?

And they are instantiated as a distributed processing system on human beings. They don’t particularly care about human beings. Their motives are inscrutable, to the extent that they have any, except that they’d like to get bigger. They’ve run on people. They’re implemented on people. But they are not people. They are not persons in any meaningful s