Philosophy Questions

A guy named Alejandro Barreto has emailed me asking me few of the [i]grander[/i] philosophical questions. They were quite interesting and challenging. I found it very enjoyable to express my views to someone who values it. Below, I am reproducing my repl...

Is this life?

We are quite close in creating the first "protocell". Protocell refers to an artificially synthesised cell which has bare minimums. The basic motivation behind creating artificial living systems is that the people who are doing this believe that what w...