As computer owners, we do not want our systems to become unresponsive. We want our computers to be swift and effective, even when we’re doing not very wise things on them. Whether we play games, work, or doing programming experiments, we need our systems to do whatever we want them to do without irritating us because it takes forever to achieve our objectives. The most common ways in which we can slow our computers are by running too many things at the same time, by using applications that consume too much memory, or by using programs that require too much disk space or activity. To have an efficient system, the owner needs to watch and maintain his or her computer resources personally or have a helper application to do the job. If you have a project similar in nature to the one described in our "Illustration" section, maintenance of system resources is crucial. As the owner, you must ensure that the self-propagating elements, like sample programs on our computers or living organisms on our planet, are not overpopulating the environment and crashing the whole unit. To maintain the population of elements brought into existence in a system, they must be removed from it after fulfilling their designated objectives, if any, or just after certain period of time. The methods of removal can vary depending on the system, but the idea is still the same: to keep the system running (and evolving, if this is self-modifying system). We have been pre-programmed to die by ourselves unless other elements of the environment manage to terminate us. What we feel or think about this issue is a very different story. We have managed to evolve into "thinking" beings. We know that other living things on the planet also have certain ways of dealing with the environment, but, at the moment at least, we are the dominant species here. We think we do most of the thinking on this planet, although it is somewhat debatable and heavily depends on our own definition of "thinking" as a term.
Our Creator, the one who initiated us from a rudimentary element like cell, or virus or whatever organism was here first, was vigilant that one's "computer" remains functional and self-balancing. The self-termination code has remained locked so far in all living species in spite of all the evolutionary process that has taken place. Our Creator wanted to be sure that self-propagating and self-evolving elements would not crash the system, whatever they might evolve to, so adverse conditions were created in the environment that make "life" very fragile and difficult to sustain. The ability to terminate one another was also embedded to ensure a self-balancing environment.
Someone might say: no one created life; it was just an accident of sorts or the result of unlimited possibilities in the universe. Sure! Possible! However, when I talk about the Creator or Creators, I am not talking about ones that exist in the same world or dimension or universe as us. I am not talking about "aliens" either. I do not insist that everything is as I am describing it… I am just making analogies between what we know and have done with what was possibly done to or with us. The term "us" here includes all the "aliens" of this/our universe, whether they are more or less advanced than we are.
When we search for physical immortality and attempt to remove or slowdown aging gens, we are fiddling with the most protected code embedded into life here on Earth. Considering that this code has survived – evolution – I am inclined to say that it was pretty well written. And, if it was well written, it must have a failsafe mechanism that activates if broken. We have to remember here, that this failsafe code is not necessarily embedded into us; it is most likely a part of our environment (operating system if you will). Remember, the students in our "Illustration"? They had to create separate programs to clean up the system. What about the programs cleaning up our world, such as natural disasters or demons from the Hell?