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By this argument houses would also count as alive because they “reproduce” via humans building more houses. (When you feel compelled to “air quote” a key term
by snowwrestler 6y ago
By this argument houses would also count as alive because they “reproduce” via humans building more houses.
(When you feel compelled to “air quote” a key term in your argument, that’s a clue you probably don’t have a good argument.)
- Razengan 6y agoYou know that kind of reduction isn't the same thing. Earth+Life is a different entity than Earth on its own, or any other planet. Earth allows and protects life, and life in turn influences Earth. That kind of symbiosis on such a scale is in a class of its own, with no other equivalent or analogy that we know of. It deserves a special classification.