Imagining the First Life


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Imagining the First Life

Questions


Do you know what makes our planet Earth different from other planets?


Where did life come to be on Earth? or When did the first life form come on earth?









 what are common among all the things you consider as living?




What distinguishes something that is living from something that is non-living?


What can be called living or not? If yes, why do you think so ?


which one is living and which one is not and why?















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Does it matter if it is small or large?


Does it matter if it can communicate with the environment and respond to it?


Does it matter whether it can move or not move?


Does it need to be conscious for us to call it living? Is bacteria conscious, is it living ? Is AI conscious, is it living?

Does it need to replicate itself?


Does it need to have “DNA”? What about “viruses” that also have DNA? Are they living?



Does it need to be susceptible to another state called “death” to be called “alive”?


Finally we tried to arrive at the most interesting question: what is life or what makes life?


Erwin schrodinger: He proposed that living things maintain their order and structure by taking in energy from their environment and converting it into useful forms to maintain their internal organization. This is different from non-living things, which eventually break down and become disordered over time.







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Max tegmark: He said that life is a system that can make copies of itself and has information that determines how it behaves and what it's made of. It's like a computer program that not only tells it what to do but also how to build itself.


Biologist Carl woese believed that life can be defined by its genetic code, which is the fundamental basis for all living organisms.


Nasa says that life is a self-sustaining system capable of natural selection. This means that living things can maintain and reproduce themselves, and over time, they can adapt to their environment through the process of natural selection.







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