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Define "alive"

>> No.14595998

>>14595988
Alive is having something to fight for, I guess.

>> No.14596011

>>14595988
it's a song by pearl jam

>> No.14596012

reproduction

>> No.14596024

>>14595998
Being alive's not a dance! It's a state of unrest!

>> No.14596025

>>14595988
self iteration

>> No.14596029

>>14595988
I'd rather discuss literature.

>> No.14596039

Motion

>> No.14596040

>>14595988
A complex system that increases global entropy.

>> No.14596090

A system composed of cells that responds to stimuli, uses metabolic processes for energy, maintains a state of equilibrium called homeostasis, has a period of growth, and reproduces.

>> No.14597344

>>14595988
Subjected to Darwinian pressures.

>>14596040
Isn't that every physical system? How do you measure complexity?

>> No.14597353

An organism which can self-preserve, reproduce (in some way), and die.

>> No.14597364
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>>14595988
An open system, composed of other subsystems that exchanges matter, energy and information with the environment and it's self regulating

>> No.14597381

>>14595988
flourishing

>> No.14597395

Possessing "will" of some kind, even if rudimentary

>> No.14597412
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>>14595988
Anything that exists in the temporal realm and is distinct from the a-temporal; separate from the logos and partaking in the duality of being; desiring a complement; to possess eros; to not be eternal but forever becoming; lacking objective truth, but being formed by it.

>> No.14597417

reminder .. viruses are conscious and sentient

>> No.14597422

>>14597417
define conscious and sentient

>> No.14597631

>>14595988
saying viruses are alive is like saying clumps of proteins and dna are alive

oh wait this is literally what every living organism represents

>> No.14598295

>>14596039
is the wind alive?

>> No.14598492

>>14598295
Yes. Same with magnets

>> No.14598552

>>14597417
explain

>> No.14598569

experiencing experience

>> No.14598570

it breathes

>> No.14598599

I'm getting sick of these "Define [abstract concept]" threads. It's pointless.

>> No.14598638

>>14595988
feedbackloop that reproduces itself in evolving iterations

>> No.14598665

>>14595988
a state in which one is susceptible to death

>> No.14598716

>>14595988
sucks and fucks