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Many of the problems in our world are due to inaccurate basic assumptions.

•Organisms are not machines. Yes we can draw little lines around parts of an organism, calling them organs, assign them specific functions and view them as a mechanical process. But to prove how inaccurate this is, all you must do is analyze the failings of our medical system.

•The brain is not a computer. You will never be able to download your memories/consciousness/personality to a machine.

•Organisms and their environment are the same entity. When organisms are moved from their environment they must be transported along with a piece of their environment or they die. Despite fantasies of someday moving to mars, this will never happen.

•Organisms looking out into the world are actually looking inward. If you want to see the outside world, the place from which you come, then use your eyes without a mirror and look towards the back of your head.

•Pleasure without pain is impossible. We will never live in a world without death, disease, and suffering.

Now about the article specifically... The idea of humans creating a living entity more complex than themselves is a fun idea, however you are looking at it without depth.

In order to understand you must look at this vertically not horizontally. Yes we can grow a more complex system than our own, however it won't exist on the same plane as us.

The idea of cells getting together to create a human that they can interact with is ludicrous. Likewise, the idea that humans will create super advanced computers that are basically just like humans but somehow magically solve all our problems is a bit off.

Instead just take it upward. As organisms have smaller components of life that do their thing and thus create the effect known as us, we also do the same.

Do you really think that what we are doing right now is just some kind of random and useless behavior to pass the time? Do you think that the channels of electrons flowing around the planet in specific patterns that are managed by millions of human beings is just for nonsense?

We've already grown intelligence, you just can't see it. I must go, my cells want to be fed.