• GingaNinga
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    44 hours ago

    technically viruses aren’t alive. They just use cellular machinery to replicate and thats it.

    • @Nurse_Robot
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      4 hours ago

      Eh, it’s not really that cut and dry. You could debate either way with plenty of evidence, in the end it’s really a limit to the semantics of language

      Edit: here’s a neat article that talks about it

      • GingaNinga
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        34 hours ago

        Thats pretty neat “you cant kill something thats not alive”. Can viruses respond to stimuli? We consider bacteria alive but viruses are debated, wheres the line? are enzymes alive? Are prions alive? cool article.