Question 1406 : The author claims that, "Part of this bionic convergence is a matter of words". Which one of the following statements best expresses the point being made by the author?
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“The overlap of the mechanical and the lifelike increases year by year. Part of this bionic convergence is a matter of words . The meanings of “mechanical” and “life” are both stretching until all complicated things can be perceived as machines, and all self-sustaining machines can be perceived as alive.”
From the above line, the author tries to show the increasing similarities between ‘mechanical’ and ‘lifelike’ with the passage of time. He states that this increase in similarities will continue till the meanings and the perception of the words become synonymous.
Option A: This option states the opposite of what the author tried to convey and hence is not the correct option. Option B: This option is distorted and can be rejected on the same grounds as option A.
Option C: This is a distorted inference, and the author did not use the above statement to show the meeting grounds of ‘genetic engineering’ and ‘mechanical engineering’. Thus, this is not the correct option.
Option D: This option aptly expresses the point made by the author in the last paragraph, and hence is the correct option. Thus, the correct option is D.