Although, on two of your three mysteries, would you wager that by about
2050 (probably earlier) computer or nano-scientists will not have created
self-aware machines; they'd preserve self, learn and able to react in
circumstances not explicitly depicted by their programmers, as well as
passing a Turing test?
Would they have self-awareness? I doubt it. If they do, it would be fascinating to discuss theology with them!
The Turing Test, btw, is designed to test intelligence, not self-awareness. And it's a very limited kind of intelligence, if that.
How about bio-engineers creating some primitive but viable life - alga-level, perhaps - which has never evolved or been
seen on Earth before;
They don't create life, they modify existing life forms. Not really different from creating the first mule, or plant hybrids. I don't know of any scientists who took absolutely sterile materials and created a living creature out of them without any infusion of living material. |
