I believe we can turn one substance into another because energy cannot be created or destroyed, but can change. There are several ways to do this, first is just burn or melt something. If I take a chair and light it on fire, it is no longer wood--it ash and smoke. If I take water and freeze it then incinerate it, I have smoke which can be turned into a number of things if introduced properly. ~Bartumes
I think you can turn one substance entirely into another. The first way Bartumes has already stated. The second way is using physics not chemistry...We could separate the substance and shoot electrons and protons into the atom to make it another atom, but that would require a tremendous amount of energy. ~Project Z
~Project Z
2. Is artificial life possible? Can we make artificial animals?
I doubt artificial life is possible. Artificial means man-made, and people cannot create life. Life is not merely a functioning and operating "machine"--it has more. It has a spirit and soul. ~Pomomarine
In my opinion, artificial life is possible. In fact, people are already trying to create artificial life (robots, reasoning and self-relying mechanical units ect.). I consider robots artificial life because they are functioning self-relying units. But humans are incapable of creating completely different biological organisms. In other words, humans can't create a completely new biological life-form from scratch.
But artificial (mechanical) life is absolutely possible, cybernetics proves that. 
~KW
I totally agree with you, KW. [My interpretation was] that "life", as what humans and animals have, cannot be recreated. However, logically functioning and "thinking" robots should be entirely possible. For example, there's even an artificial intelligence site called cleverbot.com. I agree, that in your definition of artificial life [(being more artificial intelligence)], such life is possible. ~Pomomarine
...I think that artificial life is possible. First we need to understand how a cell works then we can create a bacteria-like thing with one cell. Then we understand how cells react with each other and...try to recreate that in a [small] multi-cell creature. Then after that we can observe how other cells work and then we can build up to things that have all kinds of cells. Even though we might never create life with intelligence (not robots or androids) It is possible to recreate some natural processes... ~Project Z
I think much of this has to do with your definition of artificial life. The question was on artificial life, not creating life. Artificial life, then, is...artificial. That means it is not really life. Artificial wood [seems] like wood, but isn't. So artificial life would seem like life, but actually isn't.
[Thus], one could say artificial life is possible. This view says artificial life is not actually life, but only a replication and simulation. Thus, "artificial life" would be possible.
To the end of seeing artificial life as man-made life, however, is impossible. Humans cannot create biological organisms, simply [because] it is not natural. Biological organisms are of nature, whereas [humans] making life would be...of technology. ~Pomomarine
I think we can create life...and they have created life with animals. They cloned a sheep so where did that soul come from? All in all i think creating life is possible by taking sperm and growing it. ~Bartumes
I disagree [because] cloning a sheep is not the same as making one from scratch. The cloning of something is simply remaking a natural process. ~Pomomarine
I still believe that creating life is possible but I see now that this was not the question. I think we can make A.I. or artificial intelligence. Also by taking a robot we could make artificial life by having a brain and using a complex circuitry of wires [and] stimulate the brain to act...freely. We could then give it human tissue and have artificial life that seems much like Mary Shelley's Frankenstine. ~Bartumes
I agree. In a sense of artificially intelligent robots that look like humans, this should be quite possible. Computer programming and some mechanical coordination would do much of the work. However, I'm not sure how we would use a live brain...perhaps a computer could more easily do the job. ~Pomomarine
The thing about Mary Shelley's " Frankenstein" though, is that the monster was brought to life with an electrical shock which has already been proven impossible...but, back to the talk on artificial intelligence and robots which look like humans...An android will need emotions to truly act like a human, and emotions aren't programmable... ~KW
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