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  1. Mmm… In fact, 100%. Still became, otherwise you would not have written, I would not have answered, there would have been no one)�

    Oh, or accept natural causes, or pranks of figs knows where the Gods came from. Traditionally, they do not sculpt all sorts of Adams out of a vacuum.

  2. If this matter can be eaten by a living organism, it will become a part of it. And part of this part will serve to renew the body's cells. It is very difficult to calculate the probability even within the limits of our planet.

  3. You can't tell right away, but there's always a chance. However, you should not rely on this. We must look objectively.

    The problem is in our views. Maybe there is no “dead” matter at all. Life has always been different, but in different states. There is a direction of panpsychism – universal spirituality of all structures. In fact, our universe is a single tangle, a single system, where each atom forms structures. Everything that is alive for us is completely made up of particles))

    Hence the conclusion that there is no” dead ” matter! Our ideas about life today are primitive and imperfect. Life exists everywhere to varying degrees! There was no transition from the dead to the living, just as there is no death. As an example, we can take phase transitions of states of substances. We are used to seeing life in the way we are used to, so with some unusual changes, we consider it death or absence.

    By the way, a very interesting story is told in the book “Solaris” by Stanislav Lem. There, too, people did not immediately understand what they were facing. Life had a completely different look that people used to imagine. So that's it!

  4. Well, here it would be nice to first understand the terminology first, but you, Andrey, always have problems with this.

    Matter cannot be alive. Every living thing is made of what you call” dead ” matter. And you. And me. And everything else. Basically, it's Oxygen, Carbon, Hydrogen, Nitrogen, Calcium, Phosphorus, and a bunch of other small things. Therefore, the question should already be restated as ” How can inanimate matter give rise to life?”.

    But here we run into the definition of the very concept of “life”. Well, if you do not go into all this, then the concept of life is self-evident, it seems. The bird is alive, the grass is alive, the tree is alive, the ground squirrel seems to be there too. But the stone is not, and the river is not, and the car, and the computer is also not.

    But the further we delve into the mysteries of life, the further we delve into the functioning of every single cell, the more we describe the processes in terms of” inanimate ” matter. And the more precisely we describe it, the more difficult it becomes for us to find a definition of what “life”is.

    And no, the problem isn't figuring out what makes life a life. The problem is to draw the line between “already living” and “not yet living.” The problem is compounded by the fact that we know only one form of life – Earth. Therefore, it is difficult to make any generalizations from one example. Are fundamentally different forms of life possible? We don't know. We just sent a few robots to Mars, but they didn't find anything.

    But, in general, there are several attempts to delineate the boundaries of what can still be called life. Attempts have been made to very different degrees of success, but most biologists agree that what can be called “life” should have the following characteristics::

    1. Homeostasis (regulation of a constant internal environment)
    2. Structure (cells, cell organelles, that's all)
    3. Metabolism (roughly speaking, to absorb substances from the outside and put them into action, catabolism, anabolism, that's all)
    4. Growth (due to metabolic processes)
    5. Adaptation (very roughly speaking-adaptation to the external environment)
    6. Readaptation (the ability to adapt to a changing environment. In fact, the ability to evolve. Yes, this is indeed part of the minimum required)
    7. Responding to stimuli (there are many options here, movement, changing the metabolism and everything-everything-everything)
    8. Reproduction (ability to generate other living organisms)�
      So when matter, for various reasons, accumulates such properties, we humans can call it life. But, we must understand that “life” is purely our, human definition of a certain class of complex systems. “Living” matter does not possess any fundamentally new properties. So your question doesn't really make sense.

  5. And on what grounds do the materialists claim that living matter was accidentally born in dead matter, if there is not even a probability for this? Could this mean that they are mistaken in their views?

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