Re: [Sci.nanotech] Re: Life as Nano

Are there any examples of such nanobots operating as described? Are the actions
purely mechanical?

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> jodawi@xxxxxxxxx writes:
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> > "Too many stories treat nanotechnology as magic, where little bots can
> > do anything at all with seemingly unlimited constraints. This ignores
> > the fact that nanotechnology already exists and is quite constrained:
> > it's called life. If you don't see living things doing something like
> > what you want your nanobots doing, and doing it as quickly as you want
> > your nanobots doing it, then you're probably misunderstanding how
> > powerful your nanobots can be."
> >
> > How true or false? Any better-worded similar sentiments out there on
> > the net?
>
> You can learn a lot from life, but not everything.
>
> Organisms have evolved to adapt to an existing environment. This
> means they are built to survive in the long run, even if they
> have to perform very badly on a short time scale.
> So, in any natural environment we can not do better than life. But
> most of the environments we are interested in are not natural, we
> can supply artificial substancens or fuel it with arbitrary amount
> of energy. Under specially chosen boundary conditions nanobots
> could do special things significantly better than living things or
> they could do things no organism has ever done.
>
> Oliver
>
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