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I don't know. The definition of "life" seems so arbitrary and nebulous. It seems really more like we're trying to attribute properties based on a wishful interp

by pluma 10y ago

I don't know. The definition of "life" seems so arbitrary and nebulous. It seems really more like we're trying to attribute properties based on a wishful interpretation of emergent behaviour that ultimately boils down to extremely convoluted chemical reactions. Trying to produce genuinely novel and distinct biological lifeforms sounds cool enough on its own though.

sevenless 10y ago
Yes, the boundary between life and non-life is not sharp, but to claim it follows that life is hard to define would be the continuum fallacy (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Continuum_fallacy https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Continuum_fallacy) Manufacturing a living cell from purely chemical ingredients is a concrete enough goal. And almost certainly it lies far, far off in the future.