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Concept of alive

Life is intransitive, it helps us answer some main questions like: Where, When, How, or How long?

Some may recall the saying: "If you can do it, it's a verb".
Then, if it's alive, it has a life.

We may be biased on when life began and for some it began when something was fertilised, but the microscope sees movement before that and it continually evolves into greater things as it combines with other things. So fusion makes it alive, which forms a single entity that may have a brain. If it fears or is curious, obviously it has a life. It wants to survive. It has survival instincts.

What's the smallest known brain that is alive?
Name some very small known mammals?
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Ragworm.
Etruscan shew has smallest mammalian brain.
I think Buddhism is very addictive.
I thought it was the fruit fly that had the smallest number of neurons.
Not all animalia's have brains, so do they all feel alive?
Where: في الدنيا
When: the asked doesn't know much more than the asked.
How: with God.
How long: before the asked knows as much as the asked.
@Toscani said in #1:
> What's the smallest known brain that is alive?

Just to broaden the discussion, you don't need a brain to be alive. Trees and seaweed are alive, they don't have brains. Also you don't need to be awake to be alive, otherwise you'd wake up dead every morning. I think life is complicated, but it seems to always be a temporary homeostasis of procreating organisms that evolve around energy yielding metabolic processes. (also see: Gut-Brain axis, which we also have and is older than plants)

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