• JackGreenEarth@lemm.ee
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    4 months ago

    Life is anything that moves, reproduces, senses, grows, respires, excretes and eats.

    Consciousness is more mysterious and less well defined.

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      4 months ago

      Yes, but how do living things come into existence? What makes a cell alive?

      It’s not about defining what a living being is.

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          “And so people come to sorts of agreements about, uh, how much of a wiggle is a wiggle; that is to say a thing. One wiggle, you can always reduce any one wiggle into sub-wiggles. Or see it as a subordinate wiggle in a bigger wiggle. But there’s no real fixed rule about it”