Eric Platon
@ic
Water may be taking a more central place in Life and organic matter. Possibly bad news for silicon trans-humanism and panpsychism. Definitely relevant to exobiology puzzles, and hopefully to “AI”. https://phys.org/news/2023-06-scientists-molecules-materials.html
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John Hoang
@jhoang
How is this relevant to each of these? I'm def a noob on these topics.
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Eric Platon
@ic
Great multi-question! Trans-humanism separates body and mind. An appealing consequence is that mind could be transferred to another “body”, so potentially infinite life, etc, notably on computers (currently basically silicon). If life requires water, part of this plan collapses.
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