I am just a special type of non-living thing
When I was in my final year B.E , I told my friends Sarangan and Chandrasekhar that a living thing is just a collection of different types of molecules mostly made of Carbon, Hydrogen, Nitrogen and Oxygen. Nothing more, Nothing less. As expected they did not like the idea. I did not have anybody to discuss about this. I could not find any book talking about this idea. I put the idea to dormancy. Seven years later, when I read "Consciousness Explained" , Daniel Dennett had written this - "Only a theory that explained living things in terms of non-living things could explain life at all." I got a lead from this for further continuing on my idea. I just wanted to see if there is any magic in living things compared to non-living things. I could only find characteristics like reproduction, homeostasis, metabolism etc which can all be explained to a greater extent today by using science. We also now have scientists who are trying to create ...