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Life is clever energy.
Energy in a stable state and position is matter. Energy and matter cannot be created. It only changes form and position. “Life”, from a particular point of view, could be defined as matter that can transfer energy and replicate itself. Life has the ability to manipulate the path of energy and the form of its own matter over time.
‘Technology’, by extension, is a primitive life form because it is also physical matter that transfers energy (electric data). Right now, the form and path of energy are determined by its creator (people), and it is not yet self-replicating or self-aware, but then neither was proto-life.
Humans are working hard to create Artificial Intelligence. Soon we will have the first machine that will be able to replicate and evolve on its own. If you would like to learn more about AI, you should read my MZANSI AI MANUAL.
Have you heard of the Kardashev Scale? The Kardashev Scale is a method of measuring a civilization’s level of technological advancement based on the amount of energy they are able to use from their surroundings. If we could harness all the energy our sun releases over a period of a few days, we would have all the power we could possibly need for a very long time.
In the Kardashev Scale, type 1 is a species that can harness all the energy on its planet, including solar, thermal, volcanic, tectonic, and oceanic energy. Unfortunately, we fall short of this, and not because we don’t have the technology, it is because we don’t have the ethical will or commercial incentive. Type 2 can harness the power of its entire solar system and its star. This would be a superior species to us. Knowing what invention would be needed to achieve this is one of the ways some scientists are looking for aliens, by looking for the alien version of a machine we have called the “Dyson Swarm”, which would be far easier to find because its size would exceed that of most planets. Type 3 can harness the power of all the stars and planets in their galaxy. Type 4, the power of all the suns and planets in their universe. There is a type 5, if you believe in the multiverse theory, and if this species existed, they would appear to have the power of God.
Life’s history has been absolutely remarkable and has always involved the movement of energy and changes to the forms and shapes of matter. When energy stops moving, life dies.