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Article: Caution on genetic engineering developments in view of uncertainties of modern fundamental science.
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- Politics & Policy
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- December 1, 2008
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The fundamental enigma of science is the drastic difference between the dead and living matter. Functioning of biological systems is primarily a problem of information control rather than that of physics and chemistry. Apparently, the amount of information associated with Life and Mind overwhelms the diversification of the material world. The required information processing power for biological systems can come from the informational infrastructure underlying the material world as considered in [1]. The suggested model of the physical Universe presents a high-tech version of similar prior low-tech attempts. With the proliferation of the Internet it becomes clear that ...
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