Viruses as life

... suggests that they came from an ancient ancestor of all life forms, Caetano-Anolles said." University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. "Viruses share genes with organisms across the tree of life, study finds." ScienceDaily. www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2017/12/171206122423.htm (accessed April 1...

Viruses as life

... contexts. If you separate context and life, it doesn't make a lot of sense to attempt to use logic to determine what is alive and what isn't. So, rather than trying to make life describe its own context (which doesn't make sense), I think we have to describe in what way things are alive. I mean, pick your criteria and give it a context name. virus_ bacteria_ life_