That is literally the plot of Blood Music, with an uncomfortable amount of similarities. If he was alive, Greg Bear would be elated. Or maybe very scared.
That is literally the plot of Blood Music, with an uncomfortable amount of similarities. If he was alive, Greg Bear would be elated. Or maybe very scared.
Have you ever wondered what the cells of multicellular organisms are really capable of? We know what they normally do in vivo, building default, familiar tissues and organs under the influence of their neighbors during normal embryogenesis. But what would they do if allowed to reboot their multicellularity – if liberated from the control of other cells that shape their behavior, and allowed to express their baseline forms?
That is literally the plot of Blood Music, with an uncomfortable amount of similarities. If he was alive, Greg Bear would be elated. Or maybe very scared.
Here's a rather philosophical blog post by a co-author of the study:
Meet the Anthrobots: a new living entity with much to teach us (Michael Levin)