The word you're looking for is cryptobiosis/anabiosis no need to invent a new one. Something thats later alive almost by definition is not dead. The entire living system has been alive since abiogenesis.
We have to agree on the basic definition of ultra-basic terms.
You just proposed a definition. Good. It's not complete, but necessary, conditionally.
Basically, we shouldn't use "alive" and "dead" as dualities. There's at least three states: "dead/inert/never gonna get there", "meets a definition of life (see next category) when supplemented by a host cell or something else complex and exterior", "can self-replicate and grow on its own, in a friendly environment with sufficient food/fuel/inputs available = life".
Maybe more. But let's stop pretending biology is dead versus alive, because viruses definitely ruin that.
IAmBroom|6 months ago
You just proposed a definition. Good. It's not complete, but necessary, conditionally.
Basically, we shouldn't use "alive" and "dead" as dualities. There's at least three states: "dead/inert/never gonna get there", "meets a definition of life (see next category) when supplemented by a host cell or something else complex and exterior", "can self-replicate and grow on its own, in a friendly environment with sufficient food/fuel/inputs available = life".
Maybe more. But let's stop pretending biology is dead versus alive, because viruses definitely ruin that.
mabster|6 months ago
mwigdahl|6 months ago