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Humans Will Create Artificial Life In 10 Years, Says Scientist (Switched)

Apr 4th 2008 3:35PM It seems like everyone has missed a major point of this article. "Consume food and create energy" is nothing new. What do you think your body cells do? And its not as if there's an infinite amount of food on the Earth to support enough artificial cells to "turn us into slaves." How would a microscopic cell turn everyone into slaves anyways?

And on the point of "creating life," a single cell does not exactly qualify as life. Life as many of you are thinking of it is SENTIENT life. A cell is nothing near this, it is simply a chemical factory. Sentient life requires billions of cells, a whole mess of differentiation, a complete nervous system, and self-awareness.
A single artificial cell is NOWHERE close to creating life. The only similarity to life is fact that life uses cells in order to be alive. Like the "square is always rectangle but a rectangle is not always a square" idea. Cells can exist without sentient life but life cannot exist without cells.