Dead, Alive or Something Else? (The limitations of science)

by David Turell , Wednesday, September 12, 2012, 02:27 (4454 days ago) @ BBella


> Yes, the virus seems dormant (dead?) while waiting for a host, but it retains everything it needs to resume "life" when it finds a host. Maybe there's not that much space between a dormant virus and a dormant soul. Who really knows what goes on in the "mind" of the virus/soul while dormant/dead? Any thoughts?
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> http://serc.carleton.edu/microbelife/yellowstone/viruslive.html-I think the best way to view viruses (Viri?)is that they are parasitic particles that sort of assume a life when they take over the DNA of a true living organism and having co-opted it, enjoy a form of reproduction. This is not true life, and in the quiescent state when not in a living organism, it retains its potential to be parasitic again. I don't think this applies to death as that occurs to us.