Is that the kind of thing you need to "hear"? But yeah I agree. It seems obvious. Of course its still life, you can't escape life even at death. Well maybe that russian dude in the sealed case is avoiding it for a while. You get eaten, some of you becomes that which ate you and the rest gets crapped out, that crap feeds grass that you then are, that gets eaten etc. I learned this from the lion king. No actually its just from noticing the world. You know that thing that made us owns us allows us to exist etc? Yeah I'm really strange, I actually pay attention to it. The fact the concept of an afterlife was invented is so telling of how patheticly ignorant humans are. There is no mystery as to what happens when you die. How more straight forward can it get.
Believing in anything different is completely otiose. And I don't mean to ponder different ideas, but to commit to anything else than the absolute truth. Ever read the middle of the word believe? it smells out LIE
Life is the moment between birth and death, the moment/timespace at which the universe experiences eternity. We are the eyes of the universe and experience eternity, if aren't blidned with trivial, self created burdens.
A body of something that can have movement not prompted by anything else but itself eg. growth, , that when dead, is symbolised by a lack of movement.
Main Entry: 1life Pronunciation: 'lIf Function: noun Inflected Form(s): plural lives /'lIvz/ Etymology: Middle English lif, from Old English lIf; akin to Old English libban to live -- more at LIVE 1 a : the quality that distinguishes a vital and functional being from a dead body b : a principle or force that is considered to underlie the distinctive quality of animate beings -- compare VITALISM 1 c : an organismic state characterized by capacity for metabolism, growth, reaction to stimuli, and reproduction 2 a : the sequence of physical and mental experiences that make up the existence of an individual b : one or more aspects of the process of living <sex life of the frog> 3 : BIOGRAPHY 1 4 : spiritual existence transcending physical death 5 a : the period from birth to death b : a specific phase of earthly existence <adult life> c : the period from an event until death <a judge appointed for life> d : a sentence of imprisonment for the remainder of a convict's life 6 : a way or manner of living 7 : LIVELIHOOD 8 : a vital or living being; specifically : PERSON <many lives were lost in the disaster> 9 : an animating and shaping force or principle 10 : SPIRIT, ANIMATION <there was no life in her dancing> 11 : the form or pattern of something existing in reality <painted from life> 12 : the period of duration, usefulness, or popularity of something <the expected life of flashlight batteries> 13 : the period of existence (as of a subatomic particle) -- compare HALF-LIFE 14 : a property (as resilience or elasticity) of an inanimate substance or object resembling the animate quality of a living being 15 : living beings (as of a particular kind or environment) <forest life> 16 a : human activities b : animate activity and movement <stirrings of life> c : the activities of a given sphere, area, or time <the political life of the country> 17 : one providing interest and vigor <life of the party> 18 : an opportunity for continued viability <gave the patient a new life> 19 capitalized, Christian Science : GOD 1b 20 : something resembling animate life <a grant saved the project's life>
Life is made up of tubes that put other tubes in at one end and craps them out the other. Well, thats one of the most basic games life plays anyway, and a delicious one at that! Maybe life is the transfer of energy. When I think about what is alive and whats not I usually start thinking about carrots. I believe a carrot is alive. But when I pick it from the ground does it die? I don't think so, not yet anyway. If I put it in my refrigerator for two days, is it dead then? I really don't think it is. If I eat it, does it die then? No, it becomes the tube that is me. Then a bear or a dragon will eat me, and so on. If I let the carrot rot little tiny tubes are just going to eat it. Life is still playing its games. So, if life is the transfer of energy is a rock tumbling down a mountain life? Why not? Some people might say that the carrot is alive because it grows, it takes in energy and nutrients, mixes things up and becomes orange and green and tasty. Mountains grow too. Only in a slightly different manner. Some parts are even orange and green and tasty. A rock tumbling down a mountain is a part of the process. So, yeah, rocks and mountains are alive. anyway... interesting thread you brought back avatar Please Register or Log in to view the hidden image!
"To what extent a machine or automaton able to emulate "life" qualities would be considered alive? e.g. an android...so...what do you think?" NEVER.
To visualise or describe something in human terms, but getting back to life, well, anything that isn't Dead is Alive. Any other description of Life is purely subjective.
*Common genetic blueprint (DNA) *Same fundamental unit of life (cell) *Common evolutionary origin and shared evolutionary forces *Same pool of resources (Earth’s)
