Is There a Difference Between Living and Nonliving?

The more we learn about life, the more we're discovering that it's really a gradient. It's a spectrum is a continuum. People used to think that you're alive and then you get dead. But as the medicine progressed, we discovered that there is a lot of states in which a human can be like a shredding this cat sort of alive sort of dead. That's why people can be artificially kept alive. All of those kind of boundary conditions where someone is in some aspect alive and in some some aspects, not alive. The same applies to every other living form. And if you take a living cell and you grind it up and burn it, then sure there is a key

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