RE: So, a new kind of non-boolean, non-digital, computer architecture

Tue, 27 May 2014 00:03:26 -0700 

 

 

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On 5/26/2014 4:24 PM, 'Chris de Morsella' via Everything List wrote:

 

 

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On 27 May 2014 10:53, 'Chris de Morsella' via Everything List 
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On 26 May 2014 23:31, Telmo Menezes <[email protected]> wrote:

On Mon, May 26, 2014 at 1:12 AM, LizR <[email protected]> wrote:

On 25 May 2014 23:32, Telmo Menezes <[email protected]> wrote:

 

On Sun, May 25, 2014 at 1:15 PM, LizR <[email protected]> wrote:

I guess it would be pedantic to point out the silliness of aliens wanting to 
have sex with humans. I mean, we're more closely related to grass, jellyfish 
and slugs than we are to aliens...

 

Unless, of course life had already spread throughout our galaxy billions of 
years before our star was born and we are just the local Sol branch off the 
same galactic (or who knows perhaps even larger scale) tree of life.

 

Which would put us on a par with, say, slime mould as far as our ability to 
reproduce with aliens went. That is, we might have the same genetic code, as I 
think everything on Earth does - but everything on Earth can't interbreed.

 

Unless, sexual reproduction is also widespread throughout the galaxy… and that 
species after species on planet after planet reproduce with sperm and eggs. Now 
that does not mean viable offspring – but the sexual act and the sex drive may 
be quite common and function in essentially the same way. Pure conjecture on my 
part of course J

Naturally in order for a viable offspring to be produced the species must share 
most of their DNA, with even relatively closely related species, mostly being 
unable to reproduce with each other (or producing infertile hybrids) 

Life on earth has long been exchanging DNA with other life on earth through 
other means besides sexual reproduction, virus vectors for example. I would 
argue that life on Earth has exchanged a lot of DNA over the eons and that our 
own species has probably long ago picked up DNA from very different species by 
these means and that this DNA becomes incorporated into our hereditary lineage.

I suspect that life is not nearly as isolated each within its own silo as we 
tend to assume; rather it is more like a sponge soaking in the soup of our 
dynamic living environment… cohabitating and sharing (even our own internal 
spaces) with a host of other organisms.


Yeah, I already have some genes shared with a sponge.  That doesn't mean I can 
mate with one.  In fact I can't even mate with Cameron Diaz.

 

Yes… nor would I advise trying to mate with a sponge… or an alien J

On the other hand we became who we are, also through the  exchange of DNA 
cross-species. Life is a soup and we are in it and less distinct from it than 
we like to believe. Over time beneficial mutations (and to some extent 
parasitic selfish DNA) will jump from species to species through means other 
than sexual reproduction.

 

Chris



Brent

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