• @angrystego
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    6 months ago

    About the red blood cells - in my opinion, individual cells of multicellular organisms are alive per se, yes.

    You’re right about the consensus, but I think times are changing and thinking differently about viruses is becoming a trend.

    • @Dasus
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      16 months ago

      About the red blood cells - in my opinion, individual cells of multicellular organisms are alive per se, yes.

      So your nails are also alive? Or just the nailbed? Or the nails rven alive after you discard them?

      Red cells are a part of an organism, but they’re not an organism themselves, so they’re not exactly " alive".

      But viruses, that debate is nowhere near as simple, haha.

      • @angrystego
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        16 months ago

        With red blood cells it’s not as simple either.

        • @Dasus
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          16 months ago

          Yeah, it isn’t.

          Definitions in biology, man. There’s always an exception, and an exception to the exception and…