The Chameophytes and nanophanerophytes were the dominating
life form of this community.
In particular, constructing synthetic cells entirely from nonliving materials will provide overwhelming evidence that simple
life forms are nothing more than very complex molecular mechanisms.
Should Patents Be Available for New
Life Forms Created by Science?
Once that changes, even with rigorous science, you can have a biology that is not evolutionary in the ordinary sense; a biology that accepts higher levels of being without denying the observable realities of
life forms, that accepts vertical causality as well as horizontal causality, and that in fact would be much truer to the nature of things.
Identification of such
life forms would help to build the case that extraterrestrial life could exist in our solar system.
However, it is my view that the best reading of the words of the Act supports the conclusion that higher
life forms are not patentable.
Biopiracy is the theft of indigenous knowledge, the theft of the creative capacities of nature and the false claim by patent holders--mostly corporations--that they created the
life form they have pirated.
In the Ganges Valley, Buddhists experienced the forest and its
life forms negatively as a source of pain, danger, and struggle.
It could prove the existence of alien
life forms and lead to a re-writing of the Big Bang theory of Earth's beginning.
Most important though, is Cronenberg's suggestion of a purely digital
life form at the very end of Videodrome--"The New Flesh." While it is unclear what the evolutionary mechanism for this
life form might be--and, frankly, I doubt if Cronenberg cares; speculation about future
life forms is really not his project--it shares undeniable characteristics with the Gibsonian "ghost in the machine" and seemingly infinite replication with the screamers.