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[โ€“] [email protected] 27 points 5 months ago (2 children)

Worth mentioning: life is a construct created by humans. We decide if it's alive, just like we decided if anything else was alive. There's no definite answer that science can provide on this topic. It can only provide humanity with more facts with which we can contrive a distinction.

[โ€“] [email protected] 7 points 5 months ago

We've given life a set of repeatable rules that create a definition. Viruses don't meet the rules.