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Tom Chivers
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Middle of the media bubble
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Science writer, BuzzFeed UK. Once thrown out of Faith No More backstage party for stealing cheese. Far too nice to be a journalist, according to Terry Pratchett
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@PositiveLad @katebevan @AdamRutherford @SLSingh fucking hell, i didn't know about that. That's a story in its own right
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@milkcarton isn't it amazing?
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@SLSingh christ jesus.
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this is absolutely bonkers. (It's about Trump, obviously.) twitter.com/BraddJaffy/sta…
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I’d like to hear from the vast numbers of nice liberal people who loudly - proudly - said that Clinton & Trump were “as bad as each other”.
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Dropping the mic on funny British tweets with The 100 Funniest British Tweets OF ALL TIME. Enjoy. buzzfeed.com/robinedds/the-…
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@AndrewBattarbee yes exactly (having this conversation about definition of life as we speak)
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@ATB_66_ you're welcome! I like this stuff but Twitter isn't made for it. FWIW I think any attempt at simple definition is doomed to failure
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@ATB_66_ …you've kicked the problem of definition one place down the road. Everything "maintains itself" to some degree. What degree = life?
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@ATB_66_ exactly. What does "maintain yourself" mean? No living thing can maintain itself 100%. And stars maintain themselves, with gravity…
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@ATB_66_ also, "create themselves" isn't right. Living things are created by their parents. Are IVF babies created by their parents?
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@ATB_66_ yes! Infectious bacteria. They don't "maintain themselves", they rely on the cell machinery of their hosts to survive.
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@ATB_66_ …things display a selection of. See Wittgenstein on games: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Family_re… for an example of what I mean
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@ATB_66_ so you will end up with a large group of attributes that describe life, no one of which is universal to life, but which all living…
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@ATB_66_ no. I think that for any simple definition of life you will be able to find absurd examples (either that do or don't fit).
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@ProducerOllie @alexhern nice. thank you
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@DoxBait oh the heap thing? Yep. You end up in Wittgenstein and family resemblances if you follow this route for long, if I recall correctly
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