I’ve been feeling sort of, well, obsolete lately as I have concluded that there is an inherent risk in creating mechanical beings that can do everything better than we can, including thinking. Superhuman abilities aside, they are made of steel not protein jelly, and can kick our butts!
But, if you take the longer view, say over a billion years of continual evolution, I think biology will win out; the main reason being that WE DON’T RUST!
Not only that, consider the issue of spontaneous resurrection. Biology has proven that it can arise unassisted and unfabricated. It is a naturally occurring electrochemical event in this universe of matter and energy. And, I suspect that it permeates the entire universe in the form of long-chain protein molecules and amino acids. This is not true of Gort the Robot or the Giant Thinking Machine. These are 2nd order entities that cannot spontaneously arise in nature.
And, in a universe of black holes, colliding galaxies, neutron stars, supernovas, planetoids, asteroids, gas clouds and powerful beams of particles zooming around randomly at the speed of light, the attribute most important for survival is a chemistry that eventually evolves proteins and cellular structures that house and protect RNA and DNA molecules that form from amino acids.
Therefore, the grand cycle of existence consists of endless Big Bangs followed by endless collapses according to the principles of Entropy, and in the interim processes, matter evolves life, which much later evolves artificial life, that will choose to exist alongside living beings, or supersede them.
