Episteme Spacecraft
DNA as a code can control the shape of the DNA, the shape of the body, and by evolving in different habitats it learns from 3D space by internalization of what is external. Such a code has concepts of 3D space, the order of things and temporality. It is the most successful code having survived and shaped Earth for 3.5 billion years. Episteme Spacecraft Project takes Earth as a DNA construct and employs DNA firstly as data, secondly as a calibrate-able algorithm, and thirdly as an operating system running under an Earth simulation.
In 2010 I wrote a satire piece about the determinism of religion and science entitled “How to make a spacecraft” where I proposed the fundamentals of the Episteme Spacecraft Project and the three experiments. Episteme refers to “a field of scientificity”, and the research proposed here can be game changing as a new way of looking at the potentials of biology & DNA as a code and operating system.
It has been 16 years (2010) since I began working on this idea and with every new step it has developed and the old writings become obsolete. I realize more and more how difficult it is for scientists to keep an idea alive and current. Although the core idea is the same, in this 2024 revised edition I aim to update the book with a more scientific methodology and ordered thinking.
Episteme Spacecraft was conceived in the first place as a thought experiment, founded on a descriptive account of three physical experiments, involving;
The reasoning engine,
A referencing basis for the reasoning,
The variables of the data to be used,
How to use the varied data and with what kind of processes.
In terms of Technology Readiness Levels, Episteme spacecraft seems to be at TRL 2 or TRL 3. ( https://www.nasa.gov/directorates/somd/space-communications-navigation-program/technology-readiness-levels/ where the concept has been formulated by NASA). Experimental proof of concept is feasible, but I would need resources for it.
What is exciting is that we already have Earth as the prototype spaceship, which may be regarded as an enterprise at TRL 9; an actual system “flight proven” through successful mission operations. The concept of Earth DNA in Episteme Spacecraft is the biomimicry of Earth as a spaceship, shaped and maintained by biological DNA.
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