WITHIN
W hat is life? A simple question that
can perhaps boggle our minds. Each
organism is built up of molecules, just
complex long molecules, which are
mostly carbon. It’s never said that a
bottle of salt, a bottle of sugar or even a
bottle of proteins is living, then how is
it that an organism made up of
molecules
is
termed
living?
The common answer to this question
would be death, but on further
investigation, we would notice that
machines too can get rusty and stop
functioning. So are we really alive or are
we made to think so?
The living organisms on earth might
even be machines, built at a molecular
level by other superior beings in the vast
cosmos. The genetic information acts as
the code for each organism.
The unicellular organisms like bacteria
might be simple machines, and have a
simple code. Multicellular organisms
might be the developed stages of
unicellular
organisms,
they
are
supermachines.
So plants and fungi are supermachines
with a much complex code including
cell placement, tissue formation, etc.
The most common response to external
stimuli is fear, most of the simple
animals like corals, jellyfish and even
worms have an improved code, with
fear gene included. Cats, dogs, and even
us humans may be complex machines,
with an artificial intelligence code,
especially humans, having the most
developed AI code that our creators
would have developed.
Viruses might be something from to
computer viruses, they are sent to
destroy or take the valuable information
from the computer, this can be the
purpose of organic viruses too. They
might be sent by the jealous members
of our creator species.
All I’m trying to say is, what if living
organisms had been created by higher
intellectual species in the cosmos? If
living organisms on earth are machines,
can they be defined as machines, or a
group of machines forming a
supermachine, functioning for their
prolonged existence?
THILAK
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