• Nurse_Robot@lemmy.world
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    2 months ago

    Eh, it’s not really that cut and dry. You could debate either way with plenty of evidence, in the end it’s really a limit to the semantics of language

    Edit: here’s a neat article that talks about it

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      2 months ago

      Thats pretty neat “you cant kill something thats not alive”. Can viruses respond to stimuli? We consider bacteria alive but viruses are debated, wheres the line? are enzymes alive? Are prions alive? cool article.