• by Sophie Kleber , February 12, 2010

The key to the measuring of life is replicated complexity. Can we produce "synthetic life"? Yes, one means of producing synthetic life is manipulating existing structures to change their properties to give them radical new properties. Reading and then writing DNA. For Church, bio metrical engineering is the answer to world hunger, as it allows engineer systems need to feed the world: Bioremediated water, drought tolerant crops, golden rice, vaccines, bio asphalt and bio plastics, etc.

The ultimate reach for synthetic life is the Mirror world: the replication of existing life forms from scratch, which is 1-5 years away.

I feel in awe and uneasy.