Are organisms already algorithms or how can the merger be prevented?

Unfortunately, I have the fatal habit of reading books that I purchase early on relatively late, as in the case of "Homo Deus" by Yuval Noah Harari, which I bought in 2016. In this instance, I only finished Harari's masterpiece last week.

It's a shame because over the past few years, some of Harari's ideas and explanations, whom I consider one of the greatest thinkers of our time, could have certainly helped me in various decisions. Additionally, his insights on the topic of AI would have undoubtedly strengthened my arguments and understanding of the advantages and dangers of artificial intelligence.

Today, I would like to discuss with you the topic of whether organisms are actually algorithms, and I'm curious about your responses and reactions.

In biotechnology, and especially among the big IT tech giants, the view has been gaining traction in recent years that our feelings and emotions are essentially nothing more than a bio-chemical calculation process. These feelings were shaped by millions of years through a process of natural selection to enable humans to make good decisions when they were faced with problems of survival and reproduction.

In this model, feelings and emotions—calculated by our nervous system and our brain—are the best algorithms in the world that have passed the hardest quality test of the world: the quality test of human selection. Calculating probabilities was the best method for making survival decisions.

The idea of a lot of biotechnologists and IT-Tech Giants like Google, Apple, or Facebook—which, by the way, are becoming more and more biotechnology companies themselves—is now that if we only have enough data and, for the first time in mankind's history, enough computer power, we can create external algorithms that are way better than human feelings or human minds and understand human "necessities" or "requirements" better than humans themselves.

In this kind of view, neither the gods of a monotheistic god as in antiquity and the Middle Ages nor human emotions nor human understanding as in the Enlightenment are told to us as the highest authority in the world but external algorithms.

For the first time, therefore, an authority that was not "invented" by human ideas or stories, but can come from a non-human entity, which would be a true turning point in human history.

What is your opinion? Are we already on the path of merging organism and algorithm, or can we still prevent this? And if so, how?

I look forward to an exciting exchange with you!