BREAKTHROUGH: Colossal scientists hatched healthy chicks from artificial eggs.
No shells. No hens. Just bioengineered eggs that breathe like the real thing.
This could help bring back giant extinct birds like the South Island giant moa, whose eggs were ~80x a chicken’s. (1/10)
This is life arising from non-living matter ("abiogenesis") in a computer program and it looks just like a phase transition in statistical mechanics.
Some argue grounding and special properties of chemstry are required, but what if life is an "inevitability of computation"?
@blaiseaguera's BFF experiments suggest "life emerges" from randomness via gelation dynamics 🧬
To give context on age, Grace Hopper began computing at 38, completed the first compiler at 46, helped shape COBOL at 53, kept developing COBOL for the Navy in her 70s, retired from the Navy at 80 & then became a consultant for the Digital Equipment Corporation.
v/@cooperx86