Scientists report that they've built an artificially intelligent ocean predator that behaves a lot like the original flesh-and-blood organism on which it was modeled. The virtual creature, 'Cyberslug,' reacts to food and responds to members of its own kind much like the actual animal, the sea slug Pleurobranchaea californica, does. [
1] We model the things we build based on the things we see. But we only see the void. False gods we are. Creating only death. Lifeless things. Capable of nothing. We love watching them. Looking at them move. And yet they are hollow on the inside. See yourself in the mirror. Do you see life?
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