Amazing how far the technology has advanced since the way back when. Before you is a fairly lengthy interview where we walk through Venter’s sequencing facility, watch him gesticulate about scientific progress and how he wants to replace humans with robots arms and metabolize coal with methane flatulent bacteria, all the while assuring whoever needs assuring in these matters he is not trying to play god–”I don’t play mythological characters.” Instead, he will use his knowledge to improve mankind. Also, Venter and Dawkins predict alien life will be Darwinian. Typical dorks.
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A human being is part of a whole, called by us the ‘Universe,’ a part limited in time and space. He experiences himself, his thoughts and feelings, as something separated from the rest–a kind of optical delusion of his consciousness. This delusion is a kind of prison for us, restricting us to our personal desires and to affection for a few persons nearest us. Our task must be to free ourselves from this prison by widening our circles of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature in its beauty.
— Albert Einstein
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