Life is a simulation in so that everything is made up of a combination of energy and particles in a fractal nature, it runs on mathematics (information), that is the essence and base. It's best likened to a simulation because we are limited by language. It's not an actual computer built by reptiles.

It's energy, that has no will or want. Its energy through its infinite nature has output consciousness because that is exactly what infinite means. We are a result of a possibility of the infinite nature of particles and energy. Life imitates art. Yes we are in a TYPE of computer, but it's not an actual computer on the desk of an alien.

It is the all, it is the everything, it is the infinite possibility of energy.