I was thinking of lizard that reproduces alone it does not need any potential mate to reproduce. It literally break my assumption of basics of asexual reproduction. It was beyond my imagination but it was true. And then I started thinking of basics of living organism like Eating Excreting Reprod…

Life is a difficult concept to define. The definitions that have been proposed number hundreds, and none is perfect. The most widely accepted definition of life would say that bacteria are life forms and viruses are not. And, as you hint at in your question, when we include potential alien life into…

Are there infinite possibilities of living things? I’d say no. We can imagine a greater diversity of living things within the design space of life than what can actually evolve on our planet, based on the constraints built into all the lineages of organisms that currently exist or have existed. For…

There is cutoff between living and not living. Rocks are clearly not alive. Are viruses alive? Are prions alive? That’s all beyond my pay grade. As for alien life, even science fiction authors have a tough time coming up with what alien species might be like (at least the ones I have read). I suspec…

Still not infinite: there are a finite number of particles in the universe, hence a finite (although large) number of ways to arrange them, living or not.

The living rock uses geological time. Weathers. Erodes. And eventually becomes rocks again. When we built our first house, we had a huge sandstone rock outside the front door (a bit of Table Mountain sandstone) Our builder had strict instructions not to damage the rock. We came home from work one d…

Yes, many Indigenous cultures view everything as being part of the Creator, a concept of which I am quite fond of. I do, however, find it difficult to class a river or it’s bank as being alive, although both change through time.

Not that it’s especially relevant to the conversation, but since you mentioned it. Starseeds Starseeds, also called Sailseeds, are large (thousands of meters [1] , or approximately 1 mile in diameter) nonsentient species that travel through interstellar space. A starseed is typically spherical, but …

Yeah, those are different concepts of life, if we look at religious side and history of people’s views, it’s either a separate spirit in each river or souls of deceased that now inhabit other forms, so water just contains something alive in it, it’s not alive by itself, though if you’d take it you t…

Recently there has been an effort to define life in terms of information. I have been reading the recent writing from physicist Paul Davies. https://www.penguin.co.uk/books/305448/the-demon-in-the-machine/9780141986401.html , As pointed out by others, life is hard to define, but I bet we share a p…

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