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by phkahler 1295 days ago
Funny. I first saw life over 40 years ago. I saw some crazy objects creates in my college days. I've seen occasional articles about breakthroughs over the years. Understanding gliders and spaceships has been my foundation to grok everything since. Being able to think in the abstract was a key to understanding this article for me, but without a few concrete foundational concepts... I stopped a few times reading it to laugh at how absurdly abstract and full of jargon it is. Completely meaningless techno-babble to the uninitiated. How much of my own specialization sounds so opaque to outsiders? Maybe all of it ;-)