True: but is that not a transformation? We created a thing which carries-on our legacy, one way or another. They would consider us their progenitors. How is that any different from the way in which we view *ours*? They wouldn't exist without us, and vice-versa. Symbiosis. What's to say that *isn't* what happens at a cellular level? Cells *choose* to create more complex beings, at the expense of their own independent existence. In my opinion, this overlaps perfectly with what's happening today— as above, so below.