Similarities between life (as in organisms) and fire:
- If it all goes out (dies), it has to start again by an event happening. For fire you would have to create sparks and for organisms some chain of events would have to happen.
- Life and fire reproduce
- They create heat, and get the heat from a fuel
It makes me think, the most important thing to organisms could be things that relate to fire. For example, reproducing is like fire (and obviously people think it's important). If you were a candle, you would be taking another candle and lighting it, and then you will die, but the candle you lit will survive you. Then the candle (your offspring) will do the same thing.
Another one of these things is knowledge, where if all the humans for example, forgot an idea, it would have to be discovered again.
Not just knowledge in the mind, but physical knowledge too, because the body of an organism is an expression of its surroundings, like the terrain, temperature, and other organisms in its habitat. The human physical form is physical information about the surroundings of that human and its ancestors.
The difference with this physical and mental knowledge though, is that the physical information is lost forever when the organism dies, unless a clone is made.
