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Biology is Technology
Martine Rothblatt
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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