[Lex Computer & Tech Group/LCTG] World's first living robots can now reproduce, scientists say

[Robert Primak]

 I saw that. I chafe at calling this a "life form", but they have to bait those clicks somehow.
I refer you to Dick Wagner's talk on CRISPR, wherein he chafes at calling a bacterial phage a virus. Viri are only endemic to eukariotic cells (with a true nucleus and certain chromosome characteristics). 
Similarly, viri have been called life forms by some (not all) scientists, though they do not fulfill all the criteria of a complete life form. Then there are prion proteins, which are self-replicating but lack other characteristics even viri possess. (Mad Cow Disease is caused by a prion, as is Chronic Wasting Disease in wild deer. And Scrapies in sheep.) https://virologyj.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/1743-422X-8-493#:~:text=Animal%20prion%20diseases%20include%20scrapie,and%20spongiform%20encephalopathy%20of%20primates.

(I minored in biochemistry in college, and did a tiny bit of grad school before dropping out.)
So now we have synthetic "life" forms. The lines blur even further.
The machines are taking over, and we will be serving them before long. 
-- Bob Primak
     On Wednesday, December 1, 2021, 08:07:10 PM EST, Evie <et8686 at gmail.com> wrote:  
 
 Very interesting......

World's first living robots can now reproduce, scientists sayhttps://www.cnn.com/2021/11/29/americas/xenobots-self-replicating-robots-scn/index.html===============================================
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