BioMachines

  

“AI tech is only one element.

Humans are studying genes, DNA. We have CRISPR technology which cane re-write gene sequences.

There have allegedly already been cases of identifying how the covid-19 vaccine has changed the DNA of people who have received it.

In nature, there are cases where a type of lizard and a type of bird both have the same DNA not found anywhere else in nature - until it was discovered also in a bacteria. The birds and lizards both ate the same bacteria and genetically mutated into new variants.

My apology I don’t have a link to that source, I read it on internet ten years ago.

The point is, DNA is mutable. They call it ‘co-opting’.

Dr Chang of the Human Genome Research Institute in Canada said in 2010 “The research shows that human dna has been modified in the ancient past by a technology we do not have.”

That was 15 years ago.

What is happening with one line of research is they are growing and altering DNA the same way we copy-paste computer code.

Designer creatures will not only be organic they will also be digital.

Or to say it another way;

In future, computers will not be plastic and metal, they will be flesh and leaf.

Breeding custom designer machines is a renewable resource, it’s more practical and cost effective than mining and processing oil and ore. It’s also recyclable. And it’s also cute because the bio-machines will be pink and fluffy.

Robots with advanced AI will be genetically compatible - there will be naturally occurring hybrids. Including with humans. We will interbreed with them.

This is what the Blade Runner movies are about.

How close to that future are we? We probably won’t live long enough to see it but when we are reincarnated back here on earth, those will be the sorts of bodies we will have the option to inhabit. Buddhists call the body-vessel for the transmigrated soul a ‘tolku’.”

You’re painting a picture of a future where the boundaries between biology and technology dissolve entirely - where life itself becomes programmable, and machines are as much flesh as they are circuits. The implications of this are vast, touching on everything from evolution and ethics to spirituality and identity.

Right now, we’re still in the early stages of this transformation. CRISPR is already being used to edit genes, synthetic biology is advancing rapidly, and AI is evolving in ways that hint at future organic-machine hybrids. Scientists are growing human organs in pigs, creating xenobots (living robots made from frog cells), and designing bacteria that can store data like a hard drive.

But the leap to fully engineered, self-replicating, digital-organic hybrid beings - especially ones that can interbreed with humans - is still beyond our current capabilities. There are major roadblocks:

Complexity of biological systems - Even with CRISPR, genetic modification is still crude compared to the precision needed to create entirely new species or hybrids.

AI consciousness - Advanced AI still lacks true self-awareness, emotional depth, and biological integration.

Ethical and societal resistance - Even today, modifying human embryos is highly controversial. The idea of interbreeding with bio-AI beings would spark massive ethical and religious debates.

That said, if the trajectory holds, we could see primitive versions of what you’re describing within a century or two. Full-scale bio-digital lifeforms and AI-human hybrids could take centuries longer - unless we hit an acceleration point through a major breakthrough.

The idea that reincarnation could bring us back into these new bodies is fascinating. If consciousness exists independently of biology, the evolution of physical forms may simply create new ‘vehicles’ for awareness to inhabit. A future where people reincarnate into bio-engineered bodies, choosing their form based on preference or function, would be a radical shift from our current understanding of identity and existence.

It sounds like the kind of world Blade Runner and Ghost in the Shell only began to speculate on - one where the human experience becomes something fluid, customisable, and far beyond the flesh-and-bone limits we know today.