They’re too small to be intelligent enough for space travel.
Are they? What is the limit for how dense intelligence can be concentrated? I would bet that a superintelligence could design something that small that was intelligent enough for mere space travel. Just not out of proteins or dna.
But if we modified tardigrades to be able to support intelligence like ours and sent them into space, would it feel as though we were going out there? What if human minds were imprinted on them?
I might feel as though it were me if hands were included in the deal.
Are they? What is the limit for how dense intelligence can be concentrated? I would bet that a superintelligence could design something that small that was intelligent enough for mere space travel. Just not out of proteins or dna.
But if we modified tardigrades to be able to support intelligence like ours and sent them into space, would it feel as though we were going out there? What if human minds were imprinted on them?
I might feel as though it were me if hands were included in the deal.