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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 68