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What does “live” mean? The demarcation between the living and the inanimate is a philosophical question, not a scientific one- “what should we consider to be alive”? Modern biology does not ask this question, using a completely utilitarian approach. Living things are what the methods of biology apply to. Viruses can be studied by biology, they are affected by patterns found in biology, and they have mechanisms that are considered in biology. Water, if we are talking about water in the chemical sense, water as a substance, does not have such mechanisms, biological laws do not apply to it, and therefore it is inanimate.
But since the issue of demarcation is not scientific in principle, there is no scientific solution to this issue, and the above is obviously not one.
Organic substances differ from inorganic substances in that their composition necessarily includes carbon. Water does not contain carbon.
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Live, according to the school textbook, �is what:
1) eats
2) moves independently
3) multiplies
Given that water can not feed in any way, moves solely due to gravity and is not able to reproduce in principle, we can conclude that water is not something alive.