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IAmNorRealTakeYourMeds@lemmy.world 1 week agofire, isn’t alive. it isn’t biologically.
and we aren’t a thing, we replace our matter constantly, hence the matter wave idea.
The point is that basically every definition will fail in some edge cases.
and it ends up being more about philosophy than biology,
the whole point is that there’s no biological definition for life. we have one for medical context (brain dead, but mostly depending if it can be reversed, as soon as/if we figure how to resuscitate a brain dead person, we will have another threshold for the definition).
I think there’s a really good infinite monkey cage episode about this, one of their best episodes, I think it’s “what is death” from series 8. not 100% sure. but it’s a great listen anyways
Steve@communick.news 1 week ago
IAmNorRealTakeYourMeds@lemmy.world 1 week ago
there, you’re getting too philosophical and abstract.
fire isn’t alive, isn’t cannot evolve, no evolution… and you’re definitely failing biology.
point is that the highschool definition is bs, no biologist uses it, yet you’re stubbornly stick to it like a contrarian.
Steve@communick.news 1 week ago
Again. Alive isn’t biological. You’re very hung up on only biological things being alive.
IAmNorRealTakeYourMeds@lemmy.world 1 week ago
Biology is the study is life.
If it is alive, it is under the purview of Biology.
what you’re doing, is trying to fit anything that fits the Highschool definition as alive. and you end up with chemistry rather than life.
You are very hunged up on highschool oversimplifications.
if fire is alive, would using a lighter count as abiogenesis?