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Life. It’s so simple yet so complex. So cliché. So novel. Refreshing and terrible. To write about life is almost unfair because there is no way to describe it. There has not been a single person in existence that has not once thought about the meaning of life. Why are we here? Many have also answered. Many have fought and cried and even died by their philosophies of life. So what is the point of writing about it?
Even if we look at science, which prides itself on definitions, it does not have a definition. There is still no universal definition. Life is often defined in basic biology textbooks in terms of a list of distinctive properties that distinguish living systems from non-living. Although there is some overlap, these lists are often different, depending upon the interests of the authors. Some biologists and philosophers even reject the whole idea of there being a need for a definition, since life for them is an irreducible fact about the natural world. Others see life......

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