Guard Dog Robot Project

I had a very interesting conversation with my brother last night about evolution and technology and so I remembered about these videos ..

The truth is that computers and robots cannot be regarded as beeing alive as they are creations of humans and at best can be programmed to act in a deterministic way .. On the other hand humans are creations of smaller organisms that where in turn created by chemicals interacting with each other in a deterministic way
It seems to me that these chemicals interacting have in fact created computers and robots with humans as an intermediate step..

So in case that computers develop the skills to self replicate while also having a basic set of survival skills they could also be regarded as “alive”

The secret life of chaos ( 6 parts )

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alan_Turing#Pattern_formation_and_mathematical_biology

Speech about “logical viruses”

Self replicating 3d printer
http://reprap.org/wiki/Main_Page

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p86BPM1GV8M

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Technological_singularity