Built Quote by Richard Dawkins

Like other lifeforms, we [humans] exist only to replicate ourselves.

— George Monbiot

Our technology, our machines, is part of our humanity. We created them to extend ourselves, and that is what is unique about human beings.

— Ray Kurzweil

If we are machines, then in principle at least, we should be able to build machines out of other stuff, which are just as…

— Rodney Brooks

“We are organic computers. Living things, including human beings, are organic hardware and software, running programs encoded in their DNA. Nature is one of…

— Sahara Sanders

We are survival machines – robot vehicles blindly programmed to preserve the selfish molecules known as genes. This is a truth which still fills…

— Richard Dawkins

We have to accept that we are just machines. That's certainly what modern molecular biology says about us.

— Rodney Brooks

To say that humans are composed of machines is not to say that we are merely machines. Humans are dignified machines. We are (so…

— Max More

“the primary purpose of every living thing is to act as a vessel for the DNA that evolves life through time.”

— Ray Dalio

They are in you and me; they created us, body and mind; and their preservation is the ultimate rationale for our existence. They have…

— Richard Dawkins

Anything that's living is a machine. I'm a machine; my children are machines. I can step back and see them as being a bag…

— Rodney Brooks

“Because that DNA is the whole reason we exist, still preserved long after most of humanity ascended into super-intelligent human-robot hybrids. Humans are just…

— Samuel Peralta

“let’s instead define life very broadly, simply as a process that can retain its complexity and replicate. What’s replicated isn’t matter (made of atoms)…

— Max Tegmark