>>Biting... Who is Dr. Venter?
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>Some would call him a business genius. Others a scientific marvel. I call him a most dangerous man.
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>He's the scientist who led the team toward a new methodology of decoding the human genome based on a complex mathematical algorithm which takes tiny sequenced bits and reassembles them into the original genetic structure. It was the technology that allowed mankind to map the human genome in 2002, and some 80 million genes from all manner of plant, animal and virus since then, and today allows the mapping of any genome in about 2 hours on a $1,000 device that's the size of a microwave oven. This technological breakthrough allowed the easy "analog to digital" side of the equation (reading the chemistry and converting that DNA information to binary bits in a computer).
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>THEN...
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>He then went on from there to develop technologies, processes and procedures, which enabled him to take that binary data stored in a computer, and create "synthetic" DNA sequences by assembling them together as they exist in the computer. This allowed the "digital to analog" conversion. That process was later refined, and there is now a method to do this very easily in a few hours' time.
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>He used an early version of that now refined digital to analog conversion to create the first "synthetic life" by creating an artificial DNA strand of approximately 1.1 million pieces of genetic code, which was then "injected" into a yeast cell. The synthetic structure was designed to supplant and destroy the yeast cell's natural DNA, which it did in short order, resulting in proteins being created which are not from the original yeast's genetic code, but from the new, synthetic DNA.
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>This proved that all physical bodily life is the result of a software process creating its own hardware. The genetic code within the DNA instructs the proteins which read it continually how to manufacture more proteins.
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>He now wants to use that "digital to analog" process to create protein robots which study how various genes operate, and how combinations operate to create proteins. Given that we have about 80 million that we know of, and Dr. Venter's predicting there will be 400 to 500 million total that are found, it is an absolutely impossible task to iterate through so much analog data. So, these protein robot gene manufacturing systems will be self-replicating, taking instructions from their genetic programming on what to manufacture, how to test it, and how to signal back to the digital sensors their findings. By iterating through large DNA segments where this data is programmed into, the iteration can be done exponentially by the cells self-replicating and conducting their work in parallel.
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>It's absolutely frightening what he's on about. I would argue it's the most frightening thing this world has faced from man.

But....

Are we just trying to recreate ourselves.

longevity?
No illiness?
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