The Insignificance of Life

The prevailing view today is that life, far from being central, either geometrically, theoretically, or practically, is of almost inconceivable insignivance. So it seems that, as Stephen Hawking put it, the human race is just a chemical scum on a moderate-sized planet orbiting round a very average star in the outer suburb of one among a hundred billion galaxies. But remarkably, this appearance is misleading. It is simply not true that life is insignificant in its physical effects, nor is it theoretically derivative. I have used the word computers for the mechanisms that execute gene programs inside living cells,. Compared with the general purpose computers that we manufacture artificially, they do more in some respects