Yin and Yang-Mills - Curt Jaimungal

#science #philosophy #epistemology

Today, we can argue about what the proper definition of life is if we want to. There are interesting penumbral cases like viruses—are they alive? How about motor proteins, are they alive? Are ribosomes alive? What's the smallest thing that's alive? Who cares? There are many candidates, and we should just say, it's all right, tigers are alive, volcanoes aren't, lots of things aren't alive, sodium fluoride is not alive, DNA... it's not really alive, no, it's just a macromolecule. You see it as a diversion, this whole emphasis on definitions.

• Daniel Dennett

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