Define life
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jsomae@lemmy.ml 6 days ago
My experience with random processes: on large scales, things either happen 0 times or many times. So I find the idea that life exists in only one place pretty implausible.
fyzzlefry@retrolemmy.com 6 days ago
jsomae@lemmy.ml 5 days ago
you may define life however you like; the thing I said still makes sense.
easily3667@lemmus.org 5 days ago
Here I googled it for you
It is defined descriptively by the capacity for homeostasis, organisation, metabolism, growth, adaptation, response to stimuli, and reproduction.
If you’re gonna be on lemmy you should really learn basic definitions or at least learn how to look them up. Then you should go back to your high school and burn it down (without anyone inside) because it completely failed you.
MonkderVierte@lemmy.ml 5 days ago
By that definition, the first life on earth was not alive the first 1 billion years or so, until the complex process of reproduction was invented. Heck, life doesn’t even have to be mobile, can be fused to a rock, even more so than moss or a stromatolith. Metabolism and maybe reaction to stimuli are imo the only real requirements.
MaxHardwood@lemmy.ca 5 days ago
That’s the rule for astronomy. If it happens once, it always happens; we just haven’t seen it yet