Life, Consciousness And Intellect
But the egg does come from a living being (chicken). Egg doesn’t come from say, from a rock. So it’s acceptable that chicks are coming from chicken but you need to produce a egg, from scratch that can produce a chick. But I don’t think it’s possible, even the cloning example requires living cells to work. Also the consiousness from chemical reaction hasn’t been demostrated so it’s baseless. Otherwise, just replicate the chemical reaction and give life to the dead or make a non-living into a consious being? Basically, you need to create a normal rock from nothing. Then you need to make this rock into something alive, then you need to give it consiousness and then you need to make it intelligent by its own free will because that is what consiousness would be (programming a computer does not count because human are the alive/consious/intelligence factor in this case). Thousand of years of research and we still haven’t figured out how to do the first step let alone the 2nd or 3rd. 2nd and 3rd step only been mimic’d as you explained, making a chicken produce egg and make the egg hatch without the chicken or to take living cells and make the cells reproduce without an animal to a clone but can you make the egg yourself? Can you make living cells from scartch for cloning? No. Not yet. And probably never will. You can perform natural process in alternative way but how is this “dead, unconsious,unintelligent” nature doing all this by itself when we humans who are far more alive, consious and intelligent can’t even get close? Only one answer to that.