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True. Wait..., what? No!!!
Debate Score:43
Arguments:46
Total Votes:43
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Life is nothing more than a self sustaining chemical reaction.

Thinking is nothing more than a chemical reaction.
The process of procewation is nothing more than a chemical reaction.
Locomotion  is achieved through chemical reactions.
The 5 senses are nothing more than a chemical reaction.
The act of eating, drinking and breathing sustains those chemical reactions.

True.

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Wait..., what? No!!!

Side Score: 19
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It is interesting to note that being around other life forms also maintains the chemical reactions we call life. For example, if you put someone in solitary confinement, the sustainability of his chemical reactions decreases and he dies. ;)

Side: True.
jolie(9810) Clarified
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I'm saying that people need other people to maintain their sanity and that an insane person is damaged (i.e., the chemical reactions are not optimal at best and unsustainable at worst.) I am also saying that if this is truly the case, then there must be at least one more component to life because why would a sustainable chemical reaction become unstable if there aren't other sustainable chemical reactions around?

Side: True.

Seems like another debate that I have inspired.

Side: True.
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I came up with it while playing the talos principle. In that game you talk to a computer about what it means to be alive. ;)

Side: True.

I inspired another debate, What is life?, in which I answered that it is a series of self sustaining reactions.

Side: True.
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True.

So does that also mean when I add to the chemical reaction by eating hot peppers or drinking alcohol I'm legitimately "living"?

Side: True.

Technically, you are living whatever you do, unless it involves dying in some way.

Side: True.
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It means that you are sustaining the chemical reactions already occuring in your body ;)

Side: True.
Lopilulu(286) Disputed
1 point

Saying true and then drawing an irrelevant analogy (something so ridiculous that it would be a good strawman of your side for the opposition to use) prove nothing. You do not deserve an argument point for this spam.

Side: Wait..., what? No!!!
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I do not need points. I have more points than anyone here ;)

Side: Wait..., what? No!!!
Grenache(6053) Clarified
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I don't care about points. Never have. I also don't care whether people vote my responses down, or whom is allies or enemies, or feel silenced when I am banned. Strip away the gimmickry of this site. We're all just people talking.

Side: True.

To the atheist, yes.

But to the theist, life is not just a body sustaining its span chemically.

Theists donot believe in the big bang~evolution bag of dust bullshit.

Theists believe the actual or main life is the soul or spirit. And when it leaves the body, the body(chemical) becomes waste. It is sustained by the soul.

You can have the healthiest(in all aspects) body any man could possibly posses, but when your soul leaves, it wouldn't matter, you are waste; the body cannot sustain itself.

Side: Wait..., what? No!!!
Jace(5222) Disputed
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That depends entirely upon the theist. Some believe precisely as you assert that they don't. At any event, believing something doesn't make it so.

Side: True.
jeffreyone(1383) Disputed
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"At any event, believing something doesn't make it so."

Neither does the chemical sustainance.

Atheists believe only what they can physically see, and it's complete idiocy for a human to do so.

Side: Wait..., what? No!!!

No, this ignores emergent properties. A reductionist point of view may observe life as a large chain of chemical reactions, but looking at the bigger picture provides something much more, such as conciousness.

Side: Wait..., what? No!!!
Jace(5222) Disputed
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Reductionism attributes consciousness to the physical brain as well, which places your "bigger picture" under its purview along with the rest.

Side: True.
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What is the chemical formula that the name 'life' pertains to?

Side: Wait..., what? No!!!
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S + E = L ;)

Side: Wait..., what? No!!!