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worthwhilewrongdoing t1_iy00yj1 wrote

Our definitions of life match what we've seen, not what it must be.

I'd think that if we saw evidence of some sort of amorphous autonomous chemical soup on another planet moving around and making decisions, we might have to start reconsidering some things.

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Badtrainwreck t1_iy1n712 wrote

Self replicating Campbell’s soup, it would be endless soup.

I always thought about how when we say “nothing can live in _______” that we could only say that because we can’t imagine what could live in places we see as uninhabitable for us.

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