I don’t disagree with your take. The concept of the semantics of “what is alive?” has been going on for a long while now. Have you considered that this is a m

I don’t disagree with your take. The concept of the semantics of “what is alive?” has been going on for a long while now. Have you considered that this is a more formal version of a Bill Nye science explainer, but for adults? The reason I say this is that while unintended (I think) your post has a, “of course they’re alive, we’ve known this forever” vibe, which can inadvertently come across as condescending. I don’t mean to pick on you, we’re all guilty of such speak when we deem concepts to be obvious or well known. Your post reminds me of the “1 in 10,000” XKCD comic: https://xkcd.com/1053/ https://xkcd.com/1053/ Again, I don’t disagree that your knowledge of history and science is correct. Am just curious why you wrote your explainer in the way you did.