by Moon family May 11, 2025
On the way home from school, Grace and I discussed what life is. First, Grace said, life needs WATER. Dried things have no life in there, and we discussed eating, pooping and peeing – METABOLISM. Life needs metabolism for ENERGY.
The discussion has been continued, and today during the mother’s day dinner time, we added TEMPERATURE. Corpses have no body temperature she said. Finally, her dad, my hus added SPIRIT, and then,
What else? Grace tried to add OXYGEN, but we did not agree on it, because humans need OXYGEN, but not for all living things.
On this question of “What is life”, I felt that it is very interesting. We could think of the simple question in the view of everything from tiny unicells such as bacteria to the bigger organisms like humans and even the universe. I thought about himan vital signs such as breathing and blood pressure as well.
Suddenly, i murmured the unscientific idea that all things have life because they have birth and extinction.
We might continue thinking of what life is.
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