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To: Solon who wrote (9137)	9/28/2010 9:02:30 PM
From: LLCF	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 69300

<It acts differently depending on what it is fed. Poison (electrical overload, for instance), will kill it. So will spraying chlorine on the hard platter or other food unsuitable to her nature.> It can use various strategies to deal with the environmental change... including changing itself: putting different types of lipids in it's cell membrane for example. Further, it can mutate and learn to LIVE ON what used to kill it. <It responds very acutely to changes in climate> Huh? You'd have to explain that one... <and requires a fairly constant temperature just as do people.> People regulate their own temperature... they actually DONT require constant temperatures. <But do you think a sufficiently primitive person might well be convinced that a robot (in human form) was intelligent and alive??> Don't know... I just know every cell exhibits more intelligence than anything we've made by far. JMO DAK