Comment on viruses
flora_explora@beehaw.org 3 months agoSorry, I’m unfortunately too much of a literal, analytical thinker to continue this line of joking. Maybe I don’t even fall into the definition of life myself, who knows…
Comment on viruses
flora_explora@beehaw.org 3 months agoSorry, I’m unfortunately too much of a literal, analytical thinker to continue this line of joking. Maybe I don’t even fall into the definition of life myself, who knows…
MindTraveller@lemmy.ca 3 months ago
I’m not joking, I genuinely disagree with the mainstream classification of viruses and Commander Data is genuinely an important cultural symbol for these issues.
flora_explora@beehaw.org 3 months ago
Ah OK, I couldn’t tell. So what would you say would be a better definition and what would you like to see included? I’m not really familiar with Data, maybe some background would be helpful…
MindTraveller@lemmy.ca 3 months ago
Life is that which acts to secure its own existence or that of its kind.
flora_explora@beehaw.org 3 months ago
Hm, I see how this would be universal. But at how do you define ‘secure its own existence’? Is the sun a living being because it keep on burning? Are some chemical reactions that preserve the environment they are happening in living beings? Are any cyclical reactions or maybe even the nutrient cycles or water cycles living beings? The more you get into the details of what life is and isn’t, the more you see that it probably isn’t a binary distinction between living and not living.