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You could make a distinction here in that we only need raw materials, we don't need another organism to reproduce. Mosquitos can also easily consume raw materia
by sigmoid10 11mo ago
You could make a distinction here in that we only need raw materials, we don't need another organism to reproduce. Mosquitos can also easily consume raw materials in the form of nectar to survive, but they need to take blood from other animals if they want to reproduce. If you go along this chain of thought, you can come up with arbitrary definitions.
- AbortedLaunch 11mo agoWe need mitochondria.
- sigmoid10 11mo agoThey are technically no longer individual life forms. They sure used to be, but we merged quite some time ago. Of course that opens a whole other can of worms with respect to who you really are. You're trillions of microorganisms living together and quite a few of them don't even share your DNA.