![]() ![]() ![]() Life 3.0 which doesn’t yet exist on earth although it is nearly here, is non-human and post-biological or technological: it can “dramatically redesign not only its software but its hardware as well.” Life 2.0 is human and biological: it can “redesign much of its software (through culture), but not its hardware ” Life 1.0 is simple and biological: it is “unable to redesign either its hardware or its software during its lifetime.” It’s a self-replicating information-processing system whose information determines its behaviour (software) and the blueprints for its hardware.” His definition if life is as “a process that can retain its complexity and replicate. Tegmark is firmly within the stream of many modern thinkers who conceive of life in purely mechanistic terms. As their website proclaims “Technology is giving life the potential to flourish like never before – or to self destruct” Tegmark is a MIT physicist who was one of the founders of the Future of Life Institute, dedicated to the study of risks to the future existence of humanity from multiple threats, including super-intelligent AI. ![]()
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