Pressie writes:
There's no real distinction between being alive or not.
Oh I think there is. We (science), can agree on 99.9999% of stuff in the world and say for each that it is either alive or dead. And for the rest you can legitimately say:
It all is blurry.
And that's an end to it.
Alternatively you can squabble for weeks on an internet forum attempting to resolve the unresolvable.
But hey, that's life ;-).
Je suis Charlie. Je suis Ahmed. Je suis Juif. Je suis Parisien.
Life, don't talk to me about life - Marvin the Paranoid Android
"Science adjusts it's views based on what's observed.
Faith is the denial of observation so that Belief can be preserved."
- Tim Minchin, in his beat poem, Storm.