It's *consciousery* vs. *machinery.* @philipthrift
On Saturday, July 27, 2019 at 4:31:27 AM UTC-5, Cosmin Visan wrote: > > You said a good thing maybe even without realizing it. The "machinary" is > not a "machinary" at all. Is a system of interacting conscious agents that > work together to implement mechanical functions. > > On Saturday, 27 July 2019 03:34:20 UTC+3, smitra wrote: >> >> >> That's like trying to build a self-driving car by trying to figure out >> how to burn gasoline. Just because metabolism is of crucial importance >> to life doesn't mean one can get to life just by getting some of the >> important metabolic reactions started in some setting. Most of the >> complexity of life is in the molecular machinery. A microbe considered >> as a machine is more similar to the set of all factories, companies, >> managers and politicians of a country than to a single machine. >> >> Saibal >> > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/everything-list/d68e1529-d6ac-4520-b48a-48933ebd6477%40googlegroups.com.
