Yagathai Posted July 20, 2016 Share Posted July 20, 2016 http://www.slate.com/articles/health_and_science/science/2016/07/a_robot_with_a_rat_s_heart_that_can_eat_and_move_is_probably_not_alive_or.html?wpisrc=burger_bar Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ser Scot A Ellison Posted July 20, 2016 Share Posted July 20, 2016 It's a harder question than it would first appear. What, at the end of the day, is life? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sologdin Posted July 20, 2016 Share Posted July 20, 2016 surely the most urgent question is not whether this biorobot is alive vel non; surely the greatest urgency is preventing it from starting the biorobopocalypse? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
maarsen Posted July 20, 2016 Share Posted July 20, 2016 Until it can reproduce itself, I would not consider it a former of life. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Theda Baratheon Posted July 20, 2016 Share Posted July 20, 2016 DO ROBOTS DREAM OF ELECTRIC RAT ORGANS Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Theda Baratheon Posted July 20, 2016 Share Posted July 20, 2016 no no you have no idea how excited i get at blade runner jokes and i will ugly snort laugh at ALL OF THEM Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Theda Baratheon Posted July 20, 2016 Share Posted July 20, 2016 I WANT MORE BREAST IMPLANTS....FUCKER Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Seli Posted July 20, 2016 Share Posted July 20, 2016 The muscles are certainly alive. Their structural support system... arguably not. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
felice Posted July 20, 2016 Share Posted July 20, 2016 Well, it's obviously a cyborg; not a new concept, but actually creating one like this is impressive. Whether it's alive or not isn't a particularly important question, though. Sentience is what really matters, and this clearly doesn't have it. Any cyborg with an organic brain is probably sentient; one with an artificial brain has the usual AI dilemma irrespective of what sort of body it's attached to. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Larry of the Lawn Posted July 20, 2016 Share Posted July 20, 2016 I'll only be concerned if it starts asking WHAT DO YOU SEE? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sologdin Posted July 21, 2016 Share Posted July 21, 2016 12 hours ago, larrytheimp said: I'll only be concerned if it starts asking WHAT DO YOU SEE? I was thinking less tsuramah than wracu, to be honest. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Larry of the Lawn Posted July 21, 2016 Share Posted July 21, 2016 6 minutes ago, Triskan said: I did not catch any mentions in the article in the OP that it was based off of the Wutteat prototype. Terrifying either way. Imagine how terrifying it'd be if it was made with a sranky monkey heart instead. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sologdin Posted July 21, 2016 Share Posted July 21, 2016 wait til one of these biorobots comes out Tall. won't be so funny then, motherfuckers! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Larry of the Lawn Posted July 21, 2016 Share Posted July 21, 2016 5 minutes ago, sologdin said: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Durckad Posted July 22, 2016 Share Posted July 22, 2016 Moving away from the Bakkellatio a bit, having been a graduate from Ron Paul's school of Biology and Economic Sciences, it's clearly the gold and not the meat that gives it any semblance of life that it might have. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sologdin Posted July 22, 2016 Share Posted July 22, 2016 14 hours ago, Durckad said: Bakkellatio ZOMG but there's a new book out! addicted to atrocity! i suffer but one disorder! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Anti-Targ Posted July 24, 2016 Share Posted July 24, 2016 I ultimately don't really care whether bits of synthetic meat are alive or not, though it's a reasonable intellectual curiosity to debate the finer points. The big existential question is AI, and of course whether that poses us a threat. An AI will probably not meet the biological definition of life, and all the things it controls to do what it does won't be alive. But it's impact, beneficial or harmful, will be greater than anything that is synthetic life. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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