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Williwaw14 августа 2011'...I’m sure I’ve seen two-legged robots.’
‘Yeah, but have you ever seen the way they move? You can’t get them to navigate any sort of three-dimensional terrain; they just fall over. Getting a robot to navigate its way across a flat surface takes more programming than you’d imagine. It would take millions of neural processes for your brain to get your body to climb over one of these rocks. Trying to replicate those processes in a robot is pretty impossible. It makes you wonder about GM food …’
‘GM food?’ Dan says. ‘What’s that got to do with it?’
‘We have had various forms of robotics much longer than we have had gene technology,’ Grace explains. ‘And we can’t even make something walk on two legs. When you work in something like robotics – and I have heard biologists say this too – you start thinking all sorts of things about nature, and about whether living creatures were designed or not. It’s easy for normal people to forget just how complex creatures and plants are. When you think about all the billions of things a biological organism can do at the same time as walking on two legs, such as think, sweat, talk, menstruate and so on, you realise that its design is something so far beyond our understanding. We couldn’t make anything that complicated, or a hundredth as complicated, or a thousandth as complicated … How anyone thinks they can splice genes in and out of different species and actually improve on nature is just absurd, you know? It’s like breaking something you can’t fix. It’s a one-way function, if you know what that is …?’
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