From what I've read, life on Earth began when enough complex chemicals had enough energy pumped through them to start a self perpetuating chain reaction. Amino acids making proteins, which in turn made bacteria (something like that, anyway...) and so on.
I wonder how far away we are from the same thing happening on the Internet. You know, a power surge comes along, and all of a sudden your website is updating itself and complaining that you never spend any time with it because of your addiction to this so-called "real life."
Scary thing is, it's not all that far-fetched. All we are is a conglomeration of ever-simpler chemicals. Couldn't you get the same effect via a conglomeration of ever-simpler ideas? The odds against it happening by chance have to be as enormous as the odds of a chemical soup congealing into proteins, but couldn't it happen given enough interlinked information?
Kind of like the million monkeys hammering on typewriters and finally reproducing Shakespeare. I like it.
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2 comments:
Hey Morthax!
Thank you for accepting my suggesting, and having visited my blog.
I see that you are a philosopher...interesting (I would like to hear your opinion on some of my previous articles...)!
I liked the following sentence:
"(...) hammering on typewriters and finally reproducing shakespeare."
Cheers
This is very clever and inspirational. Though the very thought of where we come from is quite a puzzle, it often makes me feel sick to continue thinking about it.
Sharing your thought completely
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