what is life?

you’d say, anything that’s conscious is living.

okay, fair

what is consciousness?

things get murky here.

life on earth, happened by chance through a process — abiogenesis.

spark of life.

simple single celled orgs, barely alive.

what does being alive mean?

across the literature available, there is really no good answer to this.

to me, it’s very simple.

any being, that’s aware of its own existence is alive aka conscious.

it encompasses all living beings but also leaves room for controversial hypothesis:

are electrons conscious? we don’t know, with this def , they could be

is AI alive / conscious, again could be, this definition certainly allows for it.

the fundamental truths of the universe remain hidden from us.

it’s good to sometimes ponder on them.

fin.