Thread by @umesh_prabakar

#life

Life is just action and reaction at it's simplest.
So is there no life as we know it?
Is nothing really alive?
If so, the dead are not really dead.
How about love and fear?

Reasoning:
People die from virus like COVID 19.
Respiratory system collapses and oxygen supply reduces resulting in complications that lead to death.
Death occurs to all beings large and small.
Insects die, so does bacteria.
Bacteria being the smallest form of life that I know of

How is bacteria different from a virus.
Bacteria has the ability to reproduce on its own while the virus can not do so.
How is reproduction of a bacteria really different from a viruses?
One is self sufficient and the other not.
#Bacteria #Virus

From a broader perspective both bacteria and virus achieve the end result of reproduction.
So, both of them can be termed alive in traditional sense.
I am claiming that there is no such thing as life.
Why?, read on.
#Reproduction #Bacteria #Virus

There is consciousness because of the number of electrical connections in brain but being conscious does not mean being alive.
It just means having the ability of consciousness.
#Consciousness #Brain

People usually attribute the beginning of life in an unborn baby when a heartbeat can be detected.
Life is a term defined by humans of course and its meaning is tightly bound to the thoughts of life cycle.
The birth and the death.
#Birth #Death #Cycle

Species evolve by mutating.
Covid 19 made news about the number of strains found in USA.
People tracked the movement of strains.
Why does mutation occur? The replicating mechanism of a cell is at fault here.
An unintended consequence.
An error.
#Mutation

The enzymes fucked up.
They had one job to do and they messed up.
Mutations happen rarely though.
When it happens and if the resulting dna has better survival rate, its a goal, a wicket or a score, however you want to call it.
It all happens by chance.
#Chance

All this will be useful for survival of a species or development of a new species if it happens to the reproduction cells.
Any where else, the mutations can lead to cancer.
The replication mechanism could have been perfect, but it is not.
That is the balance in nature right now.

Balance is nothing but action and reaction.
Everything in the universe is action and reaction.
That is the one common rule.
#Balance #Action #Reaction #NoLife

Since everything is action and reaction, nothing is really alive; again based on our definitions of life.
So, What about love and fear?
People feel love and the fear for their future.
#love #fear

Are these thoughts not proof enough for life?
Can they be considered as "reactions" too to certain "actions" that can vary from person to person?
Not everyone's love is the same and likewise everyone has different types of fear.
This is a classic case of results from #mutation.

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