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The David Robert Lewis Bloghttp://davidrobertlewis.wordpress.com/2008/02/05/fringe-science-artificial-life%E2%80%99s-dazzling-chimera/ [The David Robert Lewis Blog] IN the mid-1980s Ridley Scott painted a haunting picture of artificial life - androids, patented snakes, and DIY replicants. Blade Runner is one of the seminal science fiction movies of all time and yet we as a species are only beginning to get to grips with the dilemma’s involved, since artificial life = artificial existence.  Thus, the announcement that science is on its way to creating artificial DNA in the laboratory, which could be as easily manipulated as computer code, brings to mind Harrison Ford’s chilling discovery that, like most artificial life-forms, nothing lives forever. 

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