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Many of us think that being Alive, with Life, and Living are all one and the same. But according to Lawsin, the author of the Biotronics Project and developer of Autognorics, they are all different and must be defined separately with distinct meanings. For a starter, let us examine the basic criteria of Life:

• Living things consume food in the form of energy (eat).
• Living things take and expel gas (breathe).
• Living things are moving or in motion (perform).
• Living things reproduce with an exact copy of themselves (replicate).
• Living things grow with their surrounding environment (thrive).
• Living things respond with their sensors (sense).
• Living things are made up of cells.

However, there are living organisms that lack one or more of these characteristics but are still considered alive, like for example the non-cellular micro-organisms that exist without cells. The seed, a non-living thing that produces a tree, a living thing. The virus, chemical machinery, that becomes alive when living with a host. And the neuron, a non-living thing that produces awareness common to living things when confined in a network.

On the other hand, being Alive can also be defined according to the criteria of being dead. To be considered dead, medically, and legally, the individual has undergone:

• Total failure of the heart.
• Total failure of the lungs.
• Total failure of the brain stem.

But again, there are living organisms without brains, lungs, and hearts but are considered alive. Trees, flowers, and jellyfish do not have hearts, lungs, or even brains but are living things. Another example is the Trichoplax, an organism without organs. This living creature of the kingdom Monera can walk without feet, eat without a mouth, digest without a stomach, and reproduce without reproductive organs.

Therefore, there is really no definite criterion that defines when an object is alive. However, by deduction and elimination, one common factor that shines among our criteria is the ability of an organism to self-consume energy. In order for something to move, reproduce, react and make the heart, lungs, and brain function, it needs energy.

Thus, when an object self-consumes energy from food, batteries, sunlight, sound, motion, or any external source of energy, such an object is ALIVE.

In this video, the machine is alive because it powers itself by self-consuming energy from external sources. Aside from energy, the machine becomes animated mechanically because of its structure and design. This automated mechanical self-animation is known as Animation Inscripted by Design or A.I.D. The animation or aliveness is due through energy, animation, and inscriptions.

The machine in the video might be alive, but again it is not living or with life. When its battery receives an infinite constant flow of energy, either by solar panels or charging stations, the machine will always be in motion indefinitely much like the jellyfish ( an animal without a brain, a heart, or blood) that floats aimlessly at sea as it simply continuously reacts unknowingly with its outside world. The jellyfish is alive but without a brain (aneural), a heart (acardial), and blood (ahemial) .

On top of this, there are other creatures who are:

• alive but without brains,
• alive but not conscious,
• alive but not aware,
• aware but not conscious,
• aware but no brains,
• conscious but not aware, and
• conscious but not self-cognizant.

Remember, Life is a process. It evolves from being alive to being living.

In the succeeding articles, the new concepts in the creation of a Living Machine are examined:

1. The Sensoric Awareness of a Machine

2. The Aneural Consciousness of a Machine

3. The Algorithmic Intelligence of a Machine

4. The Information Realization of a Machine

5. Intuitive Object and Embedded Inscription

6. A Brain without the Brain

7. The Four Pillars of a Living Machine

8. The Making of a Living Machine

            "Life is a process. It evolves from being alive to being living." ~ Joey Lawsin