…but this is not a big deal. (News to which this post refers)
The name of this post would be more accurate if it was “Man Has Finally Figured Out How to Copy Nature, A Little.” An organic being is still a mechanical one, just as much as a robot on a plant assembly line is a mechanical being. It operates according to physical forces and obeys physical and chemical laws. The machinery of nature was developed over millions of years of gradual improvement and sophistication through the course of evolution. Humankind, with all its intelligence and technology, can only make weak attempts at imitation, and even those imitations are only at the level of unicellular organisms. The bigger machinery our species has created, like cars and robots and whatever else, are mostly clumsy, inefficient, and obnoxious.That’s why I never bought into artificial intelligence being a threat to humanity- we’re simply better-adapted to life on planet Earth than any machine we create ever could be.
The whole distinction of this accomplishment rests on a false dichotomy between “living” and “non-living” matter. Anyone who’s taken a healthy dose of psilocybin realizes that there is life in all matter because existence is unified (“all matter is merely energy condensed to a slow vibration”). There is life in all things, each aspect of existence reflects upon the whole, organic life is just one means of expressing the beauty of all things, of the only thing. Humanity is heavy with scientific knowledge but remains, generally, quite shallow.