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How to increase lifespan indefinitely…

Posted on January 3, 2006Author Paras ChopraPosted in Biology, Philosophy

I have just read on the internet that the basic reason why we die in say 80-85 years is because of evolution. Yes, our bodies have just been designed to reproduce the genes to the next generation.... I have just read on the internet that the basic reas...

Immortality – News

Posted on January 3, 2006Author Paras ChopraPosted in Personal, Philosophy

Check the article: [URL=http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2005/12/28/60minutes/main1168852.shtml]The Quest For Immortality[/URL]. They plan to increase the life span by 1000 years, but can't they expand it indefinately?? ...

The History of the Universe in 200 Words or Less

Posted on December 31, 2005Author Paras ChopraPosted in Personal, Philosophy, Physics1 Reply

The History of the Universe in 200 Words or Less

Hey, check out the history of universe in 200 words taken from [URL]http://members.bellatlantic.net/~vze3fs8i/hist/hist.html[/URL]..... The History of the Universe in 200 Words or Less

Hey, ...

Bio-Intelligence: Creating chess playing bacteria

Posted on December 31, 2005Author Paras ChopraPosted in Biology, Philosophy2 Replies

Here is my proposal to create rather evolve bio-intelligence.

Evolution of Bio-intelligence ----------------------------------------

My proposal is to use bacteria as a form of crude neural networks.. such as to play a game of tic-tac-to...

An Evolutionary Approach to Synthetic Biology

Posted on December 30, 2005Author Paras ChopraPosted in Biology, Philosophy

An Evolutionary Approach to Synthetic Biology: Zen and the Art of Creating Life

A paper discussing aspects of artificial life. [URL=http://www.his.atr.jp/~ray/pubs/zen/index.html]Click here[/URL] to access it. ...

What is the effect of intelligence on evolution?

Posted on December 29, 2005Author Paras ChopraPosted in Biology, Philosophy1 Reply

Can someone comment on how evolution was affected when intelligence emerged on our planet?? Or more precisely, how are humans affecting the evolution of life on the planet?...... Can someone comment on how evolution was affected when intelligence emerge...

What is the Philosophy of Biology?

Posted on November 28, 2005Author Paras ChopraPosted in Biology, Philosophy

I seriously think that there is some kind of philosophy behind biological life. It is not created or infused by someone, it arises from the biological system itself. Take an example of identity of a single cellular organism bacteria. What is the point of...

Identitiy of a biological cell

Posted on November 2, 2005Author Paras ChopraPosted in Biology, Philosophy

Why does a cell exist?

See, cell after its division ceases to exist for itself. The two daughter cells are not the cell itself. So what benefit does the division of cells exist.

This is more on a philosophical note than the biological one....

Types of philosophies..

Posted on November 2, 2005Author Paras ChopraPosted in Philosophy2 Replies

I was glancing on a set of two books titled Types of Philosophies (Part I an II), when this struck to me.

How can be there more than one philosophy in the world?????

See, there is only one truth in the world. If someone has some kinda philo...

Is mathematics independent of science?

Posted on October 22, 2005Author Paras ChopraPosted in Philosophy, Physics1 Reply

Which is more fundamental to the world: Mathematics or Science? Are the mutually exclusive? Is there somethings such as particles and forces in maths and differentiation and squareroot in physics?

I think that maths are science are ultimate a type...

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