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Dissident Dan said:That's not what I'm saying. I was saying that I think there is no precise instant in time at which a non-living object becomes a living one. The object grows from something less resemblent of what we consider to be life to something that is completely resemblent of what we consider to be life. In reality, it's all just chemical reactions. As humans, we love to classify things, especially when classifying makes us feel special, so we classify things as living or not living, depending on how well the system being observed matches our mental model of "life".
Now that's interesting, you think that something is alive or dead only because of the subjuntive experience you have of awareness and perception, of whatever you are observing. Of course you correlate this to a objective physical process. So then nothing is dead or alive or we just think it is. Or maybe its because we can not percieve, other states of conscious awarness. In that case, everything would just be alive, and we do not know it.