Number of "Spore" creatures exceeds number of known Earth species

[jrtom]

http://afp.google.com/article/ALeqM5hkRb0z0xS4kYqr3MVgFN6_eOspsA

Did someone activate the Singularity when I wasn't looking?

*boggles*

Comments

[hukuma.livejournal.com]

Unless the creatures have designed their own spores, I don't think we're there yet.

[jrtom.livejournal.com]

Point.

I guess that the Singularity isn't exactly what I meant. I'm not sure if there's a term for the phenomenon of a virtual world becoming more complex than the real world in which the simulation exists. Which, I grant, hasn't happened here, either, except in an extremely technical sense...but that was the first thing that came to mind.