Yes, it makes sense and it’s another way to study and work with bacteria. For example there are bacteria that exclusively eat electrons, breathe them, excrete them. And clump together to form circuits. What kind of intelligent things could we genetically engineer with those bacteria?
John From: Benjamin Kapp [mailto:benk...@gmail.com] Sent: Saturday, March 28, 2015 1:19 PM To: AGI Subject: Re: [agi] Mounting Evidence, Massive Multi-Agent Intelligence Well the number of base pairs in bacteria is on the order of ~4 million. If you think of the base pairs in terms of bits then that is about half a megabyte of software. And since this software has been evolved over billions of years you can imagine there are some highly adaptive algorithms in there. But half a megabyte is by no means an order of complexity we can't deal with. Especially since we can rapidly sequence RNA/DNA. And since we can perform CRUD in RNA/DNA. And since we have RNA/DNA printers. And since we can boot strap bacteria with printed RNA/DNA. And since we can also engineer viruses which perform CRUD in target bacteria. And so we can just rewrite the bad bacteria to be good bacteria with engineered viruses the design of which can be generated by statistical models of big data regarding healthy and unhealthy RNA/DNA sequences which can be computed by throwing all of our cloud computer and AI technologies at the problem. We could also engineer good bacteria which can out compete the bad bacteria starving them of resources. Does this make sense? On Sat, Mar 28, 2015 at 9:24 AM, John Rose <johnr...@polyplexic.com <mailto:johnr...@polyplexic.com> > wrote: 1 day ago - "Obama Administration Releases National Action Plan to Combat Antibiotic-Resistant Bacteria" - $1.2 billion Very interesting. The microbes overcome everything we throw at them how could they be intelligent? People laugh about the concept of microbial intelligence. By many definitions they are more intelligent than us, we may lose this battle. Let's see, if intelligence has mass which I'm sure no one would dispute, and if we add up the mass of all human brains and compare that with the mass of all related molecular microbial intelligence I would say that by far microbes have more intelligence. Definitely. Or is that calculation, meant to be humorous, wrong? Intelligence doesn't have mass... "Microbes have more intelligence" <=> "Microbes are more intelligent" At some point does "more intelligence" beat out the "more intelligent". John ------------------------------------------- AGI Archives: https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/303/=now RSS Feed: https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/rss/303/26973278-698fd9ee Modify Your Subscription: https://www.listbox.com/member/? <https://www.listbox.com/member/?&;> & Powered by Listbox: http://www.listbox.com AGI | <https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/303/=now> Archives <https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/rss/303/248029-82d9122f> | <https://www.listbox.com/member/?&;> Modify Your Subscription <http://www.listbox.com> ------------------------------------------- AGI Archives: https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/303/=now RSS Feed: https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/rss/303/21088071-f452e424 Modify Your Subscription: https://www.listbox.com/member/?member_id=21088071&id_secret=21088071-58d57657 Powered by Listbox: http://www.listbox.com
