Define death!

[Anonymous No.15314576]

[Anonymous No.15314584]

>>15314576
For animals it's the absence of neurological activity. For other stuff like single celled organisms death is harder to define.

[Anonymous No.15314626]

>>15314576
Reversion to lower entropy state

[Anonymous No.15314638]

>>15314626
in a closed system?

[Anonymous No.15314640]

>individual cell
when the cell membrane goes *POP*
>multicellular organism
when the processes that keep the organism functioning cease

[Anonymous No.15314645]

>>15314576
Brain death

[Anonymous No.15314677]

>>15314576
go back to /x/

[Anonymous No.15314819]

>>15314576
The zero point in any metric.

[Anonymous No.15314828]

>>15314576
It's more of a process marked by The deterioration of the brain. After your heart stops your brain start to slowly deteriorate. I would also consider Alzheimer's dying

[Anonymous No.15314829]

The big ouchie

[Anonymous No.15314854]

Are retarded people born dead?

[Anonymous No.15315472]

>>15314576
Energy equilibrium

[Aether king of sci No.15315504]

A step.
A gateway.
Not the end! The vessel unto which we take back to the original life.

Da'at in Hebrew is a symbol of death as a step.

Death's door, a popular phrase, describes death as a gateway of sorts.

Death as the end resulting in nothing is nonsensical, improbable nihilism.

[Anonymous No.15315515]

>>15314576
The medical definition is the *irreversible* cessation of life processes. The key word there is "irreversible," because it turns out people can be brought back from various types of "death" all the time.

[Anonymous No.15315537]

>>15314576
I am a midwit, so please excuse me for my lack of words to describe this. But I would consider death being when your absolute spread of molecules are sufficiently dispersed beyond a certain threshold to be death. I cannot know if death can be reversed, if it was possible to rearrange your parts back together and breath life back into it. If that is possible, then death most be when they aren't fully put together. And even then, that depends on what is even considered to be "you" or "life" to begin with.

[Cult of Passion No.15315546]

>>15314576
I define life as something that can learn. If it cannot learn then it cannot evolve, and as such is not by definition "Alive".

[Anonymous No.15315558]

>>15315546
Individual organisms don't evolve.

[Cult of Passion No.15315567]

>>15315558
>Individual organisms
LMFAO...
Right, it happens all at once.
One day...all the monkey just stood up and said "I think therefore I am."

[Cult of Passion No.15315571]

Developmental Genetics and Evolutionary Biology says "No."

[Anonymous No.15315585]

>>15314576
Loss of the ability to overcome the second law of thermodynamics.

[Cult of Passion No.15315592]

Environmental Genetics says "Yes...but not first, I come second."

[Anonymous No.15315603]

Death isn't real. We live in a simulation. When you "die" the data representing "you" is processed, analysed, and the data stored in an archive. Then a new human is generated in the coordinates where the data representing you was formerly located.

[Anonymous No.15315615]

>>15315603
>We live in a simulation.
…is religion for computer nerds

[Cult of Passion No.15315619]

>>15315615
Sure. Totes not same story with new actors...

[Anonymous No.15315638]

>>15315619
I unironically believe that what the Dharmic faiths describe as Samara, the multiple levels of existence and being, non-being, etc is an ancient understanding of the stimulatory nature of our reality. It all fits together frighteningly well.

[Cult of Passion No.15315651]

>>15315638
I'm more of a Matrix man, myself. Mostly because it has "pchoo-pchoo"s in it and space Jesus going "Muh Sword!!"

[Stop guessing start learning No.15315665]

>>15315615
Facts. Simulation theory has no basis for reality