That means we share a common ancestor with viruses that used dna
Which means they should be consudered alive
Because to leave them out is just, weird then
Life is defined by the ability to perform the three vital functions: nutrition, relation, and reproduction. Machines can't do the three, and relation is not in their nature, it's 100% programmed by a third live being. And no, life is absolutely NOT defined by consciousness. Otherwise, people in coma would be considered dead.
Ps: viruses cannot do the 3 functions, so they're no life
with enough knowledge from multiple humans, yes. But one humans knowledge into AI brains can't develop something that will learn anything or everything
I agree that consciousness has nothing to do tho
This is very inflexible as a definition though
When it already doesnt work for organisms we share ancestry with, there is something fishy
We share ancestry with bacteria, not viruses.
Viruses are probably even younger than humans
Viruses aren't truly alive, they can't reproduce themselves, but need the help of other cells in an organism by taking control of them and releasing their RNA and multiplying in that cell
How do you explain viruses using rna and dna then
Those structures are too complex to have developed twice in the same planet
Parasites are a joke to you?
They cant reproduce without hosts either
They're just combined proteins and lipids that casually took molecules of RNA and DNA from other cells
Life did not suddenly appear in the complexity of a bacterium
Algae formed and evolved into further life
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