What is Life?

Life is really awesome thing and for the people of Satan life is of fewer days and they think let us enjoy this because after this we are going to die but for the people of God life is forever although their physical body can be died but they will remain alive in Jesus name forever. According to me life is very very beautiful and we can always increase this beauty when we start loving with each other and accept the others because everything is created by God and has some purpose behind it.

What is it, or what is the meaning behind, is a "silly question, it has no meaning," according to Dawkins.

Perhaps he's right. I like to think that, at least, life is subjective in its interpretation, and at its deepest, it isn't.

Are you a solipsist?

Life is in one sense what we are at this moment, consciousness. The bible depicts that the life is in the blood. So anything without blood is not living, i.e. plants.

Life in another sense is not physical but spiritual. Your soul, and it's relationship with God himself. Apart from God there is no life, so when you separate yourself from him, you have taken the life out of your being.

What is life? Life is what God has always intended. Whether or not one is experiencing life is another question.

I didn't have an inkling of an idea of what that meant until I looked it up just now. I'm going to have to say: no (especially in regards to the more negative connotation of its definition). I'm glad you asked, though! I learned a new word today.

To be clear, I'm not taking Dawkin's side on that refute of his. I respect him but find that argument something of a cop out.

How do you feel about the prevailing notion that plants are​ living things, then?

It's unbiblical. Just because something can reproduce does not make it living. If we create a robot that can create more robots does that make it living?

The capacity for reproduction is irrelevant, as is a sentient being having the ability to manufacture another. I was just curious as to what your stance was, which you summed up in "It's unbiblical." (To which I agree.)

You say a plant is sentient, tell me where is it's nerve endings... How can you tell it's conscious?

No, I did not say a plant is sentient. I also said nothing on plants' consciousness.

What were you referring to as sentient then?

Robos.

I thought it was implied what I meant when I threw in "the ability to manufacture another" as a callback to the robots example you gave; my mistake for not being more specific. There's err to a couple of things we've said, actually.

Reproduction and manufacturing are not synonymous in this context since we're coming from the argument on plants, i.e. biological reproduction.

And here I misspoke. We have non-sentient robots already doing this very thing.

we won't ever be able to make "sentient" robots without blood.

Sentient simply equates to consciousness, and consciousness simply means to be fully 'aware'. But then this deviates from the original question: "What is life?"

So many answers/interpretations to that one.

Life is the absence of death.

Life is what happens to you while you're busy making other plans ~ John Lennon