Poid said:
Cannashroom said: As I said before, go learn about how complex cells and life are, and think about trying to recreate that synthetically. I won't argue anymore, because you guys really do not comprehend the complexity of life if you think theses complex eukaryotic cells and tissues could be recreated in vitro. I am not going to teach you years worth of organic chemistry and biochemistry for you to realize how ridiculous this is, so do some research on the topic.
Fucking Christ...
Did I ever claim that recreating cells/life is easy? Even if I did, why would it matter? What relevance would that have to the fact that you have failed to provide evidence for the existence of a technological barrier to recreating complex life-forms from synthetic components while insisting that one must exist? This discussion is not about whether or not recreating cells/life is easy, it's about whether or not doing so is technically possible.
And at the moment it is technically impossible, I don't really care what is possible millions of years from now, right now there are huge barriers.
1. Our level of organic synthesis is still that we cannot synthesize many natural products in food, so we need to overcome this first, especially our synthesis of giant peptides.
2. We cannot organize structures on the scale of cells. We would need to make thousands of different vesicles, and direct cytoskeleton arrangement around them, something which is just science fiction atm.
Poid said:
Cannashroom said: Maybe we could do it in billions of years...
Finally, you concede, I really didn't think you had it in you.
If it is going to take a long time to get there, then there is an obvious technological barrier at the moment. Technological barrier is something we need to surpass to get there.
Poid said:
Cannashroom said: ...but it would be so far advanced from our current technology it would be unfathomable.
Are you basing this prediction on the same pixie-dust that you based your assertion that there exists a technological barrier to recreating complex life-forms from synthetic components?
Yes, two are posted earlier.
Poid said:
Cannashroom said: We can only reproduce unnatural forms of molecules synthetically, so they cannot be compared to their natural forms.
Why does that mean that they cannot be compared to their natural forms? What is this X-factor, do you have any evidence for its existence?
Ugh, so you didn't even read all the stuff I said on this? The nutrients in living (or recently dead) foods is presented in a context for maximum use.
Water soluble vitamins and minerals absorb very well from fruit because the sugar content helps carry them into cells (one reason you pee out most of pure vitamin pills).
I don't think there is any argument here that eating food is better than taking vitamins pills (In terms of bioavailability and efficacy of the vitamin). This is because the food already contains tons
Cannashroom said: We cannot synthesize molecules in such specified locations like cells. Cells are incredible organized and structured, it is not just a bag of crap. Our synthesis techniques focus on large scale production of one chemical, rather than the simultaneous productions of thousands in an organized manner on the micro and nano scale.
Never heard of microbiology, huh?
Um, microbiology is the study of microorganisms. It has nothing to do with chemical synthesis on the micro scale. You are acting like I don't know what I am talking about, and then misuse scientific terms.
Poid said:
Cannashroom said: At the moment, we cannot recreate the natural context molecules arise in food or herbs. We can mimic a single isolated compound, but not life as a whole. That was my point all along.
No it wasn't, your point was that there exists a technological barrier to recreating complex life-forms from synthetic components; I believe you also had a few other equally stupid points that you have probably by now retracted.
Cannashroom said: If that is "out of the scope of the OP" then deal with it, it is in the scope of the tread title, you should have been more specific.
What if I can't deal with it?
Cannashroom said: Isolated natural compounds are identical to synthetic isolated compounds. But that is not what you said, you had natural vs unnatural and synthetic chemicals/foods/drugs. And that is the topic I am talking about. It is not like I took a huge tangent on this tread, you just don't like to have your reductionist logic challenged and would rather skirt the point.
WTF are you talking about? 
Can you show me where you believe I attempted to skirt the point, or did that hallucination disappear already? 
I was talking about OC. Since that was referring to the title of the thread, and you didn't make the thread. You never tried to skirt the point, you at least acknowledged my arguments.
Cannashroom said: Why include Natural Vs Unnatural foods in the title if you didn't want discussion on it? Seriously?
I don't fucking know, don't ask me.
Again, I wasn't.
We are just throwing around this term "technological barrier" without any meaning between us. I am using it meaning what we can do now, and you guys are using, for what we could do eventually.
Technological barrier doesn't mean a fundamental property of nature that makes it impossible, it means our technology cannot do that at the moment. So to say there is no technological barrier because we can do it millions of years from now is just admitting there is because we cannot do it now.
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