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#518 - Lee Cronin - What Will Alien Life Look Like?
Modern Wisdom
What's the Difference Between Life and Not Life?
Life is characterized by the ability to build stuff in abundance that can't form by random chance. If you take a snapshot of you frozen in time, you would be as dead as a rock,. I've seen that same snapshot. So it's not just a stuff in you, right? You shed a tear, the water came from a living eye, but the water doesn't have any emotion. The spot on Jupiter isn't alive because if you know lots of clouds aren't alive, so then you see they're liberating. Ask if you leave artifacts that prove other people who follow your trail that you were alive, and we'll find out.
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