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Deep sea vent organisms can extract energy from the nutrients and heat from the geothermal vents.
by swagasaurus-rex 4y ago
Deep sea vent organisms can extract energy from the nutrients and heat from the geothermal vents.
- imoverclocked 4y agoYeah, life is messy. It’s part of why it is so hard to define what a living thing is. I think of the world as a giant soup of stuff that eats each other. It’s strange to me that humans think they are above any of it. Really, we are right in the middle of it all! :)
- TeMPOraL 4y agoIf I want to get super-reductive, I think of life as one continuous self-sustaining chemical reaction. It's an accurate, though usually not very useful way of thinking - but I still cherish it, as it reminds me that life and evolution do not obey the conceptual boundaries we set for it. The concept of a "cell" or "individual" doesn't exist in the runtime of physical reality - if we see evolution as optimization process, it's one that can and does optimize across those boundaries.