People love to put things into neat boxes so that we can somehow reduce them to a single concept. Unfortunately the real world is usually a bit more messy than

People love to put things into neat boxes so that we can somehow reduce them to a single concept. Unfortunately the real world is usually a bit more messy than that. This is one example that makes it pretty obvious that our model is a little bit overly reductive, and at least to me the "Is this life?" question seems to have an answer that is on a spectrum rather than binary.