Recent content by Drayakir

THanks for the help. I really appreciate it, seeing that is due today.

Hullo. I was supposed to briefly summarize the cellular effects of cancer. I was wondering if I should add anything to this: "Cancer on the cellular level is really quite simple. What happens, is that the cancer mutation forces cells to rapidly accelerate all steps of their cycle. The...

I think what he is trying to say is that the Universe is self-aware because some components of the Universe are self-aware. True. Though I think the Universe is far too large in order to be self-aware, or be capable of any type of thought. At most it could be like an organism reacting to...

I read about it in a Russian Sci-Fi magazine, and disregarded it as baloney. I guess I was wrong.

No, something integral to part of the code, something that it just won't function without.

Well, war games and violent video games are different. A violent video game are usually first-person shooters where one sees a whole lot of war. In essence, you see EVERYONE you kill. War games, are tactics and strategy exersizes (at least I view them as such). They are not as bad, as you do not...

No. That's not what I meant. Supposing the sentient computer program "brain" exists in cyberspace, tapping into the resources of every computer on the planet, contolling them, receiving their info, etc. But it wouldn't load itself into each and every computer. The "brain" would in essence be a...

Technically, you could be believing that you don't have your finger by having the right neurons turned off/stimulated, etc. You wouldn't see it, you wouldn't feel it, and you sure as hell couldn't see it.

That's frightening. Isn't that the premise under one of Arthur Clarke's short stories? The one where they linked all the global communications into one (they eliminated long distance), and each phone, switchboard (and now computer, router, modem, etc.) became as a sort of nauron for the...

1.) RNA primer is the thing that lays down the primers. Primers are a sequence of complementary RNA bases to which the DNA polymerase begins attaching its DNA nucleotides. This is done in both the leading and lagging strand, except the lagging strand has more primers. 2.) During RNA...

Look. There is a truth that exists. Scientists are working to achieve it. There are thing called axioms. We accept them to be true because the test of time showed them to be. If you want, you can take each axiom independently, and check whether it works or not. Tools are like that as well...

I second that. No emotions give rise to apathy, apathy destroys the need to exist. You'll have a load of suicides on your hands if we eliminate emotions. Though reducing emotions- minimalizing them, that is a good thing. Leave two, or something. Like love and anger, or fear and desire. And...

Well, they don't necessairy have to be large physically, they just need enough processing neurons. And it's not hard to envision an insect as large as a cat or dog (I live in NYC and I've seen some HUGE roaches). And insects would need a warm planet. And the revolution rate would depend. If it...

Well, yeah, I wish I could create viruses. But would it be able to do all the functions that a living bacterium could?

I disagree. Logic is good and all, but an emotionless person will not have "drive." The emotionless person will not seek to accomplish anything in his life- he wouldn't be interested in anything. Emotions provide the stimuli for action. Logic is the method of carrying it you. You can minimalize...