The distance from this to what you think about when you say "memory" is as far as your use of "morals" in your argument irrelevant.
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Odds are downright terrible for "intelligent nanobots", we might have hardware that can do what a cell can do, that is, hunt for (possibly a series of) chemical cues and latch on to them, then deliver the payload -- perhaps repeatedly in the case of disease-fighting designs -- but putting intelligence into something on the nanoscale is a challenge of an entirely different sort that we have not even begun to move down the road on; if this is to be accomplished, the intelligence won't be "in" the nano bot, it'll be a telepresence for an external unit (and we're nowhere down *that* road, either -- nanoscale sensors and transceivers are the target, we're more at the level of Look, Martha, a GEAR! A Pseudo-Flagellum!)
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All of this information was already revealed during the last Blizzcon, and it wasn't exactly mind blowing then if you compare it to what's already available for WarCraft 3. http://www.sc2blog.com/2009/08/24/blizzcon-2009-battle-net-2-0-and-the-galaxy-editors-hour/
Because pens and paper aren't technology, yeah? Technology is only something that hasn't existed before you were 30, after all.
This is like a researcher funded by Coca Cola "finding" that high fructose corn syrup isn't that bad for you.
The distance from this to what you think about when you say "memory" is as far as your use of "morals" in your argument irrelevant.
Odds are downright terrible for "intelligent nanobots", we might have hardware that can do what a cell can do, that is, hunt for (possibly a series of) chemical cues and latch on to them, then deliver the payload -- perhaps repeatedly in the case of disease-fighting designs -- but putting intelligence into something on the nanoscale is a challenge of an entirely different sort that we have not even begun to move down the road on; if this is to be accomplished, the intelligence won't be "in" the nano bot, it'll be a telepresence for an external unit (and we're nowhere down *that* road, either -- nanoscale sensors and transceivers are the target, we're more at the level of Look, Martha, a GEAR! A Pseudo-Flagellum!)
Your individual neurons aren't particularly intelligent either. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cellular_automata