Is There Any Secret Sauce in Cells?

Life is a process that's able to retain its own complexity and reproduce. All biological life meets that definition, but there's no reason why future advanced cell reproducing AI systems shouldn't qualify as well. We are still by and large stuck with a hardware that's been evolved. But the software we have in our minds is largely learned that we can reinstall new software modules. And it's this ability to do our own software upgrades which has enabled us humans to take control of this planet and become the dominant species on Earth. The most important thing is we can upgrade our minds by the measure of more parsimony than anything else. Learning includes learning how to replace our legs with something robust even