"Things do what they do, because if they didn't, they wouldn't be what they are." If machines can be sentient, then fire could be justifiably called sentient a

"Things do what they do, because if they didn't, they wouldn't be what they are." If machines can be sentient, then fire could be justifiably called sentient as well. Considering that our metabolic processes largely amount to exothermic energy transfer through oxidization and distribution via what amounts to liquid rust, I suppose the circle from man to machine to simpler machine to thermodynamics, and back to man, could be completed through this pathway.