there was once an attempt to define life. they ended up agreeing that a living thing is alive if it can procreate… then one replied that technically, that means that a single rabbit isn’t alive but a couple are.
the problem is that’s it’s fucking hard to make a definition about “being alive”.
and the more scientific esoteric ones are interesting, like adding steps in thermodynamic cascades, or theories based on chaos theory, or information theory… because other conventional definition fails some way or another.
there was once an attempt to define life. they ended up agreeing that a living thing is alive if it can procreate… then one replied that technically, that means that a single rabbit isn’t alive but a couple are.
Well if that’s the case, then women past menopause also must not be alive either. Glad we finally got that sorted out 👍
Or men who have had vasectomies, women who have had tubals, anyone infertile…
Vasectomies and tubal ligation are the ultimate power move in the goth community.
Time to start a band: Tubal Ligation Vasectomy
the problem is that’s it’s fucking hard to make a definition about “being alive”.
and the more scientific esoteric ones are interesting, like adding steps in thermodynamic cascades, or theories based on chaos theory, or information theory… because other conventional definition fails some way or another.
I’m still not sure why viruses aren’t considered to be alive.
They’re really interesting things. An intrusive, malicious payload that only needs to find the appropriate host in order to multiply itself
no metabolism, by themselves, they are inert. yet it can still evolve.
it’s an edge case of life.
They don’t fuck each other (to my knowledge anyways, I’ve never watched virus porn)…