what is life?

Answer 1

Life is a brief slowing in time.

Answer 2

The question "what is life" can mean different things to different people and in different disciplines. Would a priest, a parent, a doctor, a scientist all have the same definitions about life?

For example in a biological sense 'what is life' roughly translates to the question "what characterises the living state" and may involve the discussion of DNA, assemblage, function etc...however politically, socially, ethically, the question "what is life" may involve issues such as when the start of or what the quality of life is eg the abortion debate, severely braindamaged, or terminal patients quality and sanctity of life and the appreciation of life and other philosophical interpretations are valid but rather abstract and often biased towards the human experience of life rather than definitions of life

i prefer looking at a scientific, eg biological, or ecological definition of life because its far less anthropocentric and focuses on defining and researching and characterising all life....however even biologically definitions have grey areas, the diversity of life often proves difficult to box! and the philosophical /human aspects of the question shouldnt be ignored-

Some biological characteristics of life:
Although assembled from the same raw materials organisms are more complexly organised than non living things

All organisms are part of webs depending directly or indirectly on one another for materials and energy

Metabolic activity-acquire and use energy to stockpile tear down and build and eliminate materials

Homeostasis-controls to respond to environmental changes to maintain favourable operating conditions for the organism

A capacity for growth development and reproduction

DNA is the molecule of inheritance

All show adaptive potential and there are selection variations

But consider some of the grey areas; those things that seem to have some living characteristics and not others, eg viruses, liposomes, philosophically you could consider the earth itself to almost to be living if you look at webs, homeostatsis etc

in a physiological sense its even unclear what is required by living organisms to survive-except for water-all organisms (appear) to need water to some degree-it used to be that sunlight was on the list until deep sea vents and cave dwelling organisms were discovered that could break chemical bonds for energy and didnt need the sun, it also used to be thought that temperatures above the limit of protein denaturing couldnt support life also, but vents dashed that one too-i think 120? degrees C has been measured in water with bacterial life, to date.

Face it its one simple question one very complex answer

Answer 3

Life is made up of beautiful flowers of love and Thorns of sorrows. So life=1/2 happy+1/2 Sad.

Answer 4

It is time span. Between two dots. Born date and death date are two dots. This is a vast subject. Adi Shankara not only revived the wisdom of integrated life and made it popular in his day, and also established four principal seats of learning in four corners of India to enjoy the beauty of life with pure and to ensure that it would reach the generation after generation. Gyana and Bhakti. Knowledge and devotion. I am not competent to expand further.

Answer 5

Life is the gift of god. It makes u to experience various difficulties and to learn from ur failures. Enjoy ur life but while enjoying simultaneously achieve ur goals and be a successful and ideal person in ur life which provides u alots of satisfaction after all satisfaction is the mostb important in life.

Answer 6

Life is what you make it

Answer 7

Life is basically a way to live.
Happy life comes from happy living.
Happy living comes from Happy feeling.
Happy feeling comes from Positive thinking.
Positive thinking comes from Positive approach.
And positive approach brings Happy Life.

Answer 8

Life is Greater than the Greatest Immaterial Gift by THE CREATOR OF THE MOTHER EARTH!

Answer 9

Yet beyond the bricks and mortar of the city,beyond the manufactured chit chat of the dinner table ,the inspired arguments of politic es, the pursuit after women,society and "the thing:there lies the big wide world with its dream, its excitement , its wast distances ,its wide music ,its silence, Ti's laughter, and its tears, To find it how ever . you must renounce all those blind alleys of existence. You have to got to forget appearances and the judgement of tho use who live in next door. the world is deep and wide . that each man is as good as another until he has proved himself inferior.and that life is fleeting,and there is so much to see and do.

Answer 10

Life is a journey, where every human being has to leave this place(world) ,as d traveller doesn't stay in d same place. And also a combination of "happiness & sadness".