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The original was posted on /r/nostupidquestions by /u/LiberaceRingfingaz on 2023-12-26 19:39:07+00:00.

Over geologic timescales, the story of the development of life is pretty much molecules using energy and form to shape other molecules into larger and more functional systems. How is humans (a system of molecules) shaping raw materials into another system that evolves and shapes its own development fundamentally different from that?

Edit: y’all - this is no stupid questions and I’m seriously asking this question. “Machines aren’t alive” isn’t really an answer to my question of “why?” and I’m hoping to find one. Thanks in advance.