[moonchrome]

> Like all engineering projects there are still physical constrains of course but there is no limit on the technology allowed

Except having to work from a legacy codebase via incremental changes. No way for evolution to explore silicon based life when it kicked off with carbon.

[flir]

> No way for evolution to explore silicon based life when it kicked off with carbon.

Oh, I don't know. Isn't that what we're for?

[moonchrome]

But that's not based on evolution/biology anymore.

[naruhodo]

Yes, we're the primitive, squishy ancestors.