Biological and/or Social Movement of the matter.

A speech with Alexander Oparin.

The academic Alexander Oparin, on his book "Source and Evolution of Life (1969)" : "Life is a particular form and a very complex movement of the matter..." ,"it's doubtful that during last millennium, mankind has ever changed in a biological way, but acquired quite a power over nature, one without precedents, a power that comes from a social evolution, not from an individual-biological one..."  This tech-scientific social evolution allows us not only to move in high speed cars, trains or fly high in aeroplanes, but also to silence DNA, fix and modify genoms (CRISPR-Cas9) and develop artificial brains with neuromorphs nanochips and memristors. It's quite obvious that the complex movement of the matter doesn't depend on our natural biological development anymore; that the path to human progress be centered on the social form of the movement of the matter, an efective progress centered at the breakthrough of integrated sciences and technologies with the possibility of transforming nature: chemistry, nanotechnology and biotechnology. 

Returning to Alexander Oparin: "What makes quiet a difference, on qualitative terms, life from other forms of the movement of the matter, is the fact that on living bodies, many dozens, hundreds of thousands of chemical individual reactions are strictly coordinated in time and space, and they are combined in a certain and unified order of continuos self-renewal”. In short, our movement is based on the complex capacity of metabolism that allows us to get and to assure vital energy. The sun is the only source of energy that has supplied and still does supply the "factories of life", meaning the cells. From the solar gaining cells point of view, there's just two types: the ones that gather energy and the ones that has no chlorophyll, every cell of animal reign, it includes humans. It includes animals that eat vegetables (herbivores) as well as animals that eat animals that ate vegetables (carnivores). Maybe, human beings could have evolved over the millennia to directly capture sunlight, but that this did not happen. If we aim to extrapolate biological evolution comparing to the exponential growth of tech-scientific social environment, the real issue turns up being quantitative, and one would expect that environmental conditions make life on earth (environmental collapse) an impossible thing to happen. In the near future, when environmental conditions will make living as we know it and impossible fact, nanotechnolgy will be able to give us a transition from a mortal cellular human to an immortal humanized robot, through a conscious mind placed in an artificial brain.

A homo nanus (robot) fed by sun light, capable of living without water, food, oxygen, cells, gens...just battery operated...a timeless traveler thru the universe...A non-biological movement of matter to reduce the complexity and problems associated with your current vital mobility.

Alexander Oparin, thank you. 

Translation: Adrián Horacio Tozzi.

Further reading:

Alexander Oparin. El Origen y la Evolución de la Vida. Ediciones Curie. 1978. Buenos Aires.

Umberto Ítalo Gallasso. Célula, simbiosis y cáncer. 1982. Buenos Aires.