The Mystery Of Life
6 years ago in #steemstem by zyx066 (75)
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THIS!
Life is a concept so hard to grasp, the line is so blurry that, like you said, why is a single cell bacteria alive but a virus is not? Viruses do all the things bacterias do except reproduces with it's own means because it lacks the resources so it takes it from others, you could say is a parasitic, but you can see parasitic wasps in the wild a tell that they are very much alive, but they need something else from another animal to reproduce.
That's in the micro sense, what about the macro? Why are not societies alive? Societies are a system very much like ourselves, a circulatory system like highways, factories like the liver.
This is something to think for decades? Is humanity alive? AND WHAT'S UP WITH VIRUSES AGAIN?
Amazing post man! I really enjoy it!
Thanks so much for this valuable addition @elfranz; you've caught a significant oversight on my part in that there's also the larger view you describe here. How on earth did I forget to mention the possibility to also see the planet itself as a living organism, like the Gaia hypothesis..?!? And same could be said of societies to! I love this comment, thanks for that! :-)
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OMG! this is so my kind of subject! I have to come back and read it thoroughly, but from just a quick skim, i know i'll have an enlightening read!
Anyone who mentions Entropy becomes my instant friend :DDD
I'm so glad we share so much of the same interests, @ankapolo, and I'm proud to be able to call you my instant friend too :-)
My thought too. A second read will be necessary tonight :)
There was a perfect amount of complexity to go just above my head but I can reach up and grasp it in a sense :) amazing post :)
Thanks so much @vladivostok :-) I'm glad you liked it enough to grasp it, or grasped it enough to like it..!? ;-) <3
Nice post with a plethora of information and exquisite questions. I have a fairly simple definition of life, it is all contained in that simple but complex twisted ladder shape. If it contains DNA it is or was at some point alive. I don't know of a better way to classify life.
Thank you @coinsandchains :-) It's difficult indeed. And then we're only talking about live as we know it. Who knows if there's other forms of life as well? Silicon based instead of carbon based... ? Who knows?
Silicon-based? That would be really interesting, which does bring another aspect into living things, why always carbon?
This is some really deep stuff. Sometimes, the more we look, the less we see.
Yep, it's deep stuff @solcross and I'm so glad you stopped by to think with me on this enigma we call life ;-)
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Hello very interesting subject! "I guess, in the end it's only really important to recognize life and to realize that we are alive. "I totally agree with this.
Thank you so much for taking the time to leave this, @drawmeaship, it's much appreciated :-) I hope to see you again soon!
My pleasure:)
It definitely wasn't a waste of time going through it. Confusing? A little bit.
I actually didn't know that parts of the cell are dead. Hmmm... Its a mystery
Its quite hard to define it (actually, there seem to be no real definition of it) and we can't fully understand it but it sure is worth living and of course getting the best out of it.
Yes, @audreybits, it's a mysterie, but a pleasant one :-) Life's a miracle and our most precious gift ,definitely worth living and enjoying as much as possible!
Yeah, it is! We shouldn't miss out on the opportunity of living it.
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STOPTo support your work, I also upvoted your post!
that's the point. a living cell is made up of non living molecules; amino acids, lipids, carbohydrate and nucleic acids- these are molecules that are not living and are being made up of natural elements ( C, H, N, O, P, S ), but they form the structural and metabolic component of a living cell. Another funny part is that these living systems maintain or regulate themselves by influx and eflux of electrolytes (homeostasis).
if life could have been founded on non living elements, then what could have given it the gut to go against the 2nd law of thermodynamics?
science is working hard to close the gap between the living and the the dead trying to create an artificial life from non living primordial molecules, although it seems to be a realistic goal but until then Life remains a mystery.
nice post, you did a good job