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Life is anything that moves, reproduces, senses, grows, respires, excretes and eats.
Consciousness is more mysterious and less well defined.
Yes, but how do living things come into existence? What makes a cell alive?
It's not about defining what a living being is.
Jiggling. It's about wiggling and jiggling.
“Jiggle physics is the real science. Everything else is stamp collecting.” - Einstein maybe
"What is a jiggleo?
A dead body
Well, he ain't really dead, but he ain't like
Anybody that you've ever met before
He'll eat monopoly and shit out connect four"
-ICP
“And so people come to sorts of agreements about, uh, how much of a wiggle is a wiggle; that is to say a thing. One wiggle, you can always reduce any one wiggle into sub-wiggles. Or see it as a subordinate wiggle in a bigger wiggle. But there’s no real fixed rule about it”
Does a wave wiggle or jiggle?
What is "sensing" or "growing" or "respiring" or "excreting" or "eating"?
I would define those terms, but you would just ask me to define the terms I used to define them, wouldn't you? Eventually, language is known by other people without being defined in terms of language.
Not really, i left out the term reproduce because i think it has some reality. But others like sensing — does an atom changing the electron cloud due to an electric feild or nearby atom count as sensing because it senses the presence of nearby atoms or whatever?
Won't growing constitute of some large mass body collecting more mass due to its gravitation?