And are bacterio-phages "alive"? Complex molecules that disrupt the replication of subsystems of viri, causing replication of the original molecule instead. Is that molecule a life? Scientifically, if it can be remotely considered alive, even by the most exotic definition, then how can any debate exist about whether or not a 2 month old fetus is "alive"? Hell, that's got a central nervous system!
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Philosophy.
Date: 2013-05-22 03:03 am (UTC)