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Mad Mac
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Mad Mac asked in Arts & HumanitiesPhilosophy · 1 decade ago

What is your definition of life?

What characteristics are necessary for a thing to be alive? Can a non material soul be alive by your characteristics?

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  • Ego
    Lv 6
    1 decade ago
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    Erwin Schroedinger provided the authoritative scientific definition of life in 1946. His answer is good enough for me.

    (Follow the link to see his criteria)

    Source(s): http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Life#Definitions
  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago

    Being conscious and self aware, although I'm sure many things aren't self aware and are considered alive.

    I need a better definition.

  • Heiress Rhodes
    Lv 5
    1 decade ago

    To live in life is already a gift.

    What I know about my life is to live with what I know I want to be in this world.

  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago

    I think only in death would we fully understand life. And since there is supposedly nothing after you die, this question shall never have a definite answer.

  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago

    All that can die.

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