Translation Rights TQE / Synthetic Lives

Along with the turn of the century, science is undergoing a revolution that brings us right to the limits of human knowledge. Throughout the last few decades, scientific investigation has managed to use computer technology in order to recreate entities as diverse as cells, illnesses, brains or climates, all in search of laws that determine how they work. Nowadays, our capacity to construct virtual worlds, and even to design synthetic living systems in the laboratory, have given a rare push to this vision. It is already possible to experiment an immersion in virtual realities, and some of them put to the test our perception of what is real. There are highly evolved robots that are able to lie, artificial cells that allow us to design living circuits, and models that investigate how to stop aging and detain cancer. On this long voyage, fundamental questions about the origin of life and matter, of the nature of conscience or the possibility of predicting human behavior have been conquering the territory of philosophy to the point where many think that it is now the discipline of science that can tackle classical questions and their possible answers. Synthetic worlds bring us closer to the limits of what is possible and leave us facing new questions and unexpected answers.

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