• MrSoup@lemmy.zip
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    Yes, but how do living things come into existence? What makes a cell alive?

    It’s not about defining what a living being is.

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        “Jiggle physics is the real science. Everything else is stamp collecting.” - Einstein maybe

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          "What is a jiggleo?

          A dead body

          Well, he ain’t really dead, but he ain’t like

          Anybody that you’ve ever met before

          He’ll eat monopoly and shit out connect four"

          -ICP

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        “And so people come to sorts of agreements about, uh, how much of a wiggle is a wiggle; that is to say a thing. One wiggle, you can always reduce any one wiggle into sub-wiggles. Or see it as a subordinate wiggle in a bigger wiggle. But there’s no real fixed rule about it”