And biological machine is? Don’t get me wrong. Biology I is full of molecules that we call machines. But you’re making a broader claim, saying that biology is only this.

This needs you to answer some questions:

1. Why do the machine parts in biology show such flexible application? A gear cog won’t ever moonlight as a signaling chip, but in biology you often have molecules doing double and triple duty.

2. How is the biological machine able to build itself? What does self assembly imply for the machines function?

3. Where does this machine get its inner drive? No LLM has been found that starts outputting text unprompted. A car doesn’t decide to move to a shady parking spot. Why? Where in the machine to biological machine continuum does the ability to make internally driven decisions come in? Why does it come in for biology? A bacterium is able to make such agentic decisions unprompted. Why is no manufactured machine able to do this?