User:Origami Man

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Origami Man

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I’m Origami Man. I’ve 3 mothers and 2 fathers. I was created by students from Freiburg University, so I’m completely synthetic. I remember the first days of Synthetic Biology:

• - Dilettante: "Where is a place of synthetic biology here - good old gene engineering > bio-nanotechnology > artificial life > artificial intelligence?"
  - Expert: "Hmmm..."
• - Professor: "What is new in Synthetic Biology?"
  - Undergraduate student: "Wiki!!!"
• On a disco field:
  - "Did you hear about Synthetic Biology?"
  - "Oh yes, it’s like a HypeHope!"
• People in a street:
  - "What is a synthetic biology - science or technology?"
  - "Expedition."
  - "No, it’s a new culture."
  - "Yes, it’s an art of self-modification!"
  - "Hmm, I think it will be a time of Lamarckian evolution."
• - Shrödinger: “What is life?”
  - Alice: “It’s a play where rules are constantly changed.”
  - Correspondent: “...and, who does manage these rules, God?”
  - PhD student: “God is a notation x operating outside the visible world.”
  - iGEM instructor: “The rules are managed by those people from MIT”
• In lab
  - Skeptic: “What is synthetic in Synthetic Biology?”
  - Pessimist: “I think it’s more constructive than synthetic.”
  - Optimist: “I hope it will be ultimately completely synthetic.”

Optimist was right.

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