Defining Life and Death
The discussion delves into the complexities of defining life, with a widely accepted definition emerging from a NASA meeting in the 1990s that describes life as a chemically self-sustained system capable of Darwinian evolution. The concept of death presents its own challenges, as historical fears of premature burial highlight the difficulties in determining when life truly ends, with terms like "abiotic" used to describe non-living entities like the Moon.In this clip
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