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Anonymous Tue 31 Mar 10:53:10 2020 No.11517760 View Reply Original Report

Quoted By: >>11517761 >>11517767 >>11518566 >>11518936 >>11519124

Is "life" a scientific term?

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 31 Mar 2020 10:53:52 No.11517761 Report

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>>11517760
It describes something very specific by the biological definition so I say 'yes'.

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 31 Mar 2020 11:02:24 No.11517767 Report

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>>11517760
Yes

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 31 Mar 2020 17:42:39 No.11518566 Report

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>>11517760
There are so many things like viruses, transposons, plasmids, viroids, etc. that are in a grey area of "life"

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 31 Mar 2020 17:50:40 No.11518588 Report

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>>11518566

Which makes me think our first observation of extraterrestrial "life" wouldn't abide by our rigid definition of it

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Anonymous Tue 31 Mar 2020 17:54:57 No.11518603 Report

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>>11518566
>being clearly not alive by definition is grey area

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 31 Mar 2020 19:27:02 No.11518831 Report

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>>11518603
Life is defined by people making a set of rules about what it is and isn't
It is a useful definition, but the name of a thing is not the thing itself

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 31 Mar 2020 19:31:24 No.11518853 Report

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>>11518603
>Muh arbitrary definitions

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Anonymous Tue 31 Mar 2020 20:02:37 No.11518927 Report

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>>11518831
>the name of a chair is not a chair in itself
>therefore a table can also be a chair despite the fact that nobody mentally able calls it a chair
Actual retard

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Anonymous Tue 31 Mar 2020 20:05:31 No.11518936 Report

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>>11517760
desd

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Anonymous Tue 31 Mar 2020 20:12:52 No.11518953 Report

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>>11518853
Give grade 6 bio a whirl, it'll blow your mind

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 31 Mar 2020 21:07:59 No.11519124 Report

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>>11517760
Living and Virus are just concepts in which we try to understand, what is happening and help other people to understand it too. The best we can try is to constantly adjust our models to what seems to be happening. There is no ideal language of science. Language is our world we can’t really escape.

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Anonymous Tue 31 Mar 2020 21:10:44 No.11519131 Report

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>>11518603
The scientific definition of life was created before viruses were known

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