Laziness is a dirty trick to defy the Truth || Acharya Prashant (2017)

Question: What is Life?

How do you call somebody alive?

AP: A dewdrop vanishes in no time, does it have a life?

Talk about yourself. What do you call as ‘your life’, your aliveness? We have this instrument here. Anybody can push the buttons and get it to operate in the way they want to. You can record the noise of the marketplace in this, and you can record the most beautiful music in it. It’s all the same. It does something. It moves, it reacts. Would you call it alive?

Why not?

L: Because it is just reacting, not responding.

AP: Then how is eating, moving, breathing, a sign of life?

L: Sir, the machine does not have consciousness…