From the point of view of science we are exclusively physical machine constructions. It is very reassuring that science at least defines us as „alive“. Otherwise we would be what machines are as a rule: dead matter. What is then „life“ except a scientific definition? If we go out from the science, then everything is soulless and therefore – perhaps – dead. If we go out from the divine, then everything is animate and therefore – perhaps – alive. If we renounce definitions like alive or dead, then we are probably none of these. We are perhaps in an ineffable, unspeakable and unthinkable state. Beyond arbitrary and external categories of alive and dead. Then „life“ and „death“ may not exist like that and we are worrying far too much about a mere matter of definition.
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