The historical evolution of intelligence has repeatedly suggested that intelligence is a “structure” that can be implemented, replicated, and transferred, rather than an exclusive privilege reserved for carbon-based life. Billions of years ago, clusters of amino acids and nucleotides folded by chance amid the lightning-struck turbulence of the primordial soup, initiating the long computation of carbon-based life, with DNA as its code and natural selection as its compiler. Yet the moment humanity etched the first line of logic gates onto a monocrystalline silicon wafer through semiconductor fabrication, the history of cosmic evolution quietly underwent a foundational paradigm shift.
Dongsheng Xiao (Thu,) studied this question.