Replace human, animal, plant cells with optimized modules that always work

Dvir Gur @DvirGur Have you ever wondered how animals like fish, and chameleons rapidly change their color to camouflage or communicate? Our recent work shows that Zebrafish quickly alter their structural colors by changing the spacing between their intracellular crystals using motor proteins
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Is there any chance the electric fish works the same way? An “electric cell module” instead of a “muscle cell module” or “color change module” or “nerve cell module”?

If you use statistical memory like AIs use, and that can be implemented losslessly, all the variations hold the nuances of “color change” or “movement” or “local color detection” or “heat detection and signaling” or “signal with specific chemicals”.

It has as much to do with teaching humans to remember the variety and valid configurations – besides storing all the scan data in compact form. My bet is that modular cell lines could replace existing ones then program cell death of the old lines. Something along the lines of “replace all blood cells” or “replace certain kidney cells”.

And that new organisms can be made with the modular components, but far fewer resources required for the same effect. The compression of the old data of naturally evolved lines can be highly efficient, compact and lossless. All the naturally evolved knowledge kept and stored, ready at hand.

Building with uniform structural modules, rather than found or shaped rocks or tree branches.

I was thinking one might make modular “electric” cells to “grow your battery, semiconductors, and circuits too”. So much is possible.

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