Many people say, life is life. Many say life is difficult to be defined, but it can be seen. Some people might try to assign meaning to life. Some might say that life just can't be defined. Well, some even would spend their whole life to understand the same question.
So what exactly is life? Does life mean cellular organisms? Is it necessary for an organism to have a life that there has to be a way it can reproduce? Does life mean it has to consume material and convert it to energy for its use? Does life mean an alive organism needs to serve some purpose?
It probably is not easy to definitely categorize live/non live objects by using just above points (separately or collectively). For example, we have always wondered what life of a cloned object means? Is a cloned object alive, well no doubt a cloned Buffalo or Sheep is alive, it is no different to any other Sheep/Buffalo.
What if we talk about a robot, something like we see in sci fi movies like terminator. Can they be claimed to have life? Well, I don't remember how they used to reproduce but they do seem to satisfy all other obvious criterion for being alive out of our above list.
Now let's move to one more step. We do know that we live on oxygen. What if Scientists are able to make a genetically modified human using bioengineering who doesn't need oxygen or let's say just absorbs energy from atmosphere for its survival. Well besides this he is no different than us. Will we call him alive?
To be honest, the above human really looks like a possible chance of survival for human race because of all the things about climate going on and off course our planet earth is not going to be habitable forever. After few billion years when Sun dies we can't survive on the earth the way we are.
We might want to move to some other planet, we might go there do some tests, modify human gene for survival on that planet and colonize that.
Besides this, lets say we can create new bodies completely for a human and put consciousness of a living human and put into that somehow. Will that body have life? Will that have soul?
A lot of things can be done for survival of life but will that be life be able to be called life at all?
More importantly, what happens if we can't survive our lives the way we want to? Does anything change in universe? Does a human life have any different purpose than any other machine which we see (for example fan), well we can talk all about future generations and stuff but to what end? Well, there might be some purpose to human life but do we know it yet?
So what exactly is life? Does life mean cellular organisms? Is it necessary for an organism to have a life that there has to be a way it can reproduce? Does life mean it has to consume material and convert it to energy for its use? Does life mean an alive organism needs to serve some purpose?
It probably is not easy to definitely categorize live/non live objects by using just above points (separately or collectively). For example, we have always wondered what life of a cloned object means? Is a cloned object alive, well no doubt a cloned Buffalo or Sheep is alive, it is no different to any other Sheep/Buffalo.
What if we talk about a robot, something like we see in sci fi movies like terminator. Can they be claimed to have life? Well, I don't remember how they used to reproduce but they do seem to satisfy all other obvious criterion for being alive out of our above list.
Now let's move to one more step. We do know that we live on oxygen. What if Scientists are able to make a genetically modified human using bioengineering who doesn't need oxygen or let's say just absorbs energy from atmosphere for its survival. Well besides this he is no different than us. Will we call him alive?
To be honest, the above human really looks like a possible chance of survival for human race because of all the things about climate going on and off course our planet earth is not going to be habitable forever. After few billion years when Sun dies we can't survive on the earth the way we are.
We might want to move to some other planet, we might go there do some tests, modify human gene for survival on that planet and colonize that.
Besides this, lets say we can create new bodies completely for a human and put consciousness of a living human and put into that somehow. Will that body have life? Will that have soul?
A lot of things can be done for survival of life but will that be life be able to be called life at all?
More importantly, what happens if we can't survive our lives the way we want to? Does anything change in universe? Does a human life have any different purpose than any other machine which we see (for example fan), well we can talk all about future generations and stuff but to what end? Well, there might be some purpose to human life but do we know it yet?
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