🚀 go-pugleaf

baez@guitar.ucr.edu (john baez) wrote:

>Well, since I was only interested in building a person, not a
>*particular* person, I don't think the details of the magnetic field
>strength of the earth will matter much.  As for the recipes for water
>and the like, it's true we need to decide how much the aliens know
>our language.  That's one of the vague spots I mentioned.   This is
>always a touchy point with information theory.  I'd be perfectly happy
>at this point to drop the aliens and say we were communicating with
>human biochemists.

So you want to tell human biochemists how to make another human.
Challenging, I'll grant you, however, this being Valentine's day, our
task is somewhat simplified...

(a) Get some flowers and a box of chocolates

(b) . . .     ;-)


Ken Muldrew
kmuldrew@acs.ucalgary.ca