The Dilemma of Immortality

So why create a life form that is so vulnerable, that can die, and that requires a heartbeat – when with today’s technology we could just as easily create a robot that lives for 100 years and that can simply go into stasis rather than die, then just wake up again and be ready for the next 100 years?

humans, however we came to be, are NOT at the top of our
universe’s complexity scale.

We could be 10 times stronger, or 2 times smarter, we could be able to communicate with thoughts rather than words, we could be able to live 1000 years without aging. But we aren’t, and we don’t. Our species of has limitations, not because this was as far as humans could be made to go, but because there has to be some purpose to human existence, something we must do to earn the right to be alive. If we were already at the end of the universes scale for a life form, then what would be the purpose of having all these humans running around on this large rock? No, we are less than perfect so we something we must prove in order to be, and stay, alive.

And such it must be with isomorphic life forms, we cannot just create a robot that lives forever, it must have to earn its place in the world (and earn respect in the eyes of humans that it, too, has earned the right), it must have to DO something to be alive. I have created the Gallium Heart for this purpose, with each beat of its heart, the robot will be striving to stay alive, not a free pass into the world of animate life forms, but a road that requires constantly DOING something to earn the right to share with humans the attribute of life.

Life, Robotic

Mankind's first synthetic life form

This blog describes the creation of the first new synthetic life form ever created by the human race. My intention for this action is to one day build a living museum of robotic life forms, filled with many different types of “isobios” (isomorphic biological life forms). An entire synthetic ecosystem, powered solely by a single outside energy source much as the Sun is to Earth. I envision a place that exhibits the various different kinds of synthetic life, and where living “isobios” can be observed in their natural environment - where children and adults alike can come to see these fascinating creatures live.

Through this, I hope to bring about an awareness of our own fragile ecosystem and the effects that we humans have on it through – My hope is that a parallel viewing of this similar robotic ecosystem will give people a different view of our own ecosystem, how complex, yet how much it needs our help to survive.

Also bringing awareness to the many endangered species in our own ecosystem, which my heart goes out to - how our actions as a human race are directly affecting these other life forms, and Earth’s ecosystem as a whole.

I would like to partner with the endangered species of the world organizations, and also climate change awareness organizations, even perhaps NASA to showcase the various kinds of life forms that are different from our own yet could populate the universe at this very moment.

I also intend to create an educational curriculum course showcasing and investigating the various scientific and biologically inspired concepts in isomorphic life creation. My hope is that this will be taught in schools or universities, to give students a real understanding of how ecosystems, and their life forms, really come to be and share a deep connection to each other – as we ourselves are part of Earth’s ecosystem.