Given the improbability of spontaneous emergence of cellular life, is it conceivable that cells were preceded by larger, structurally simpler generally intelligent processes? Such systems could be more brittle and perhaps not capable to self replicate and generationally evolve?
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What if cellular life is the result of intelligent design, by abiological intelligence, perhaps serving as the ideal von Neumann probe?
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A cell is probably overly complex for the same reason that many software systems are overly complex. Because that's what average overburdened programmers produce. A big ball of mud. It has evolved chaotically to being good enough. Not well designed.
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Quite the contrary. Evolutionary processes allow for incredible optimization, beyond the capability of programmers. The cell is not overly complex. It is as complex as you would expect if you need to combine a self replicator, negentropy extractor and Turing machine.
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Replicating genetic material/structure likely came before cells, but "energy conversion" to drive that had to be the first innate behavior ;p
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Indeed. The missing link is a simpler self-replicating molecule which isn't around today as it is easily outcompeted by cellular organization. No need for magic or panspermia.
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Did you ever look into Microtubules, in particular Neurotubules? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neurotubule …
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The size difference will be there until we can create/grow biological computers (brains, analog bio computers) and I doubt that an AGI (human level) can be achieved in a digital universe.
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define universal intelligence
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