biology is technology

Biology is Technology

Martine Rothblatt

mar@unither.com

New York City, 23 June 2016

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Biology & Technology

• BIOLOGY: Something that increases negative entropy by streaming order onto itself

• TECHNOLOGY: Something that increases negative entropy pursuant to intent

• INTENT: Simulation, Selection & Satisfaction of alternative realities

• ERGO: Biology, used with intent, is Technology

• ERGO: Self-Replicative Technology, is Biology

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Schrödinger Model

Environment

-Intent (No Sim)

+ Intent (Sim)

+/- Intent (+/- Sim)

Negative Entropy

Biology

Technology

Humanity

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My Technologies Were Extensions of My Biology

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My Negative Entropy Simulated, Selected & Satisfied Other Realities

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The Technology Self-Replicated With Biology

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Failure of Biology Fixed With Biology As Technology

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Intention is Darwinian Variation & Selection At Hyper-Speed

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End-Stage Organ Failure Cries Out for Technological Biology

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Practical Step 1: Save the 80% of BDD Lungs That Are Trashed Today

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Intention Is Not Limited to Today’s Brains

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Consciousness is to Brains as Flight Is to Birds:Similar Functions Arise From Diverse Forms

Souls Emerge From Minds & Mindfiles, As Technology Emerges From Biology

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THAT WHICH IS EMERGENT RESHAPES THAT FROM

WHICH IT EMERGED, i.e.,

PROGENY INTEGRATES PEDIGREE

Synthetic Biology = most salient tool at hand, for making, changing,

saving& perhaps even ex vivo thinking

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SYNTH BIOLOGY IS AS OLD AS:

> HOW MAN MADE DOGS;> HOW WOMAN MADE GRAINS;

AND AS NEW AS

> HOW BIOTECH MADE MEDS;> HOW WE’LL MAKE ORGANS. BIO-XP 3200Martine Rothblatt of unither.com 17

IF DNA REARRANGING DIDN’T EXIST, WE WOULDN’T EXIST

& IF WE DON’T ACCELERATE DNA EDITING,MANY OF US 10 BILLION MAY NOT

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BIOLOGY CAN SEEM WEIRDTECH, BUT WEIRD IS NOT UNETHICAL

• UTILITY MUST EXCEED YUCKINESS,

• WHICH IS EASY WHEN BIOLOGY AS TECHNOLOGY IS:

> LIFE-SAVING

> OR SIMPLY MORE CONVENIENT THAN DISGUSTING

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SUMMARY

• INTENTIONAL USE OF BIOLOGY BECOMES TECHNOLOGY

• I’VE USED IT TO SPREAD SATELLITE RADIO & HELP THOUSANDS MANAGE THEIR DISEASES

• I’M USING IT TO CREATE AN UNLIMITED SUPPLY OF TRANSPLANTABLE ORGANS

• IT WOULD BE STUPID TO ABJURE NATURE’S GREATEST INVENTION SINCE CHEMISTRY

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