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




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From: flipsu5@xxxxxxxxxxx
Date: Wednesday, April 13, 2005 4:37 am
Subject: 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:
> >
> > > "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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Biological system is versatile one. It has great deal of potential to adapt
with the environment. Small organisms are quicker in adaptation and trasmit
the adaptaed changes to bigger species. We still are in process to understand
the same. Development of nanobot superior to biological one will take very
long time. Although it is a terrible feeling that biological system is not
much different than any chemical process using nonliving things. If this
feeling is not suppressed the growth of science & technology may get affected.
Growth of human being is dependent on his feeling thet he is something special
and different. If this feeling doesn't exist, some disatrous thing can follow.

Nandan


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