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Solesaver t1_irnqgbv wrote

Cars are alive. In the very specific environment of an automotive factory, the machinery and humans present replicate them from a base blueprint. /s

Viruses are not alive. They are merely particular arrangements of molecules that are prone to being replicated by a compatible host if encountered. The memetic conception of life (where any repeating or replicating pattern is "alive") is too degenerate to be usefully applied.

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