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 I enjoyed the discussion we had on determining what is life when we analyze it using the word "alive". I am still not completely persuaded by the ideas that have been shared in class since it is such a complicated subject and I am still trying to understand it myself. Yet I continue to question the idea of classification; what terminologies am I using (and how) to distinguish what is alive and what is not. What should I call a living organism and why? This weeks lab was extremely fun and it made me understand how classifying objects can be a "red flag" in science and one should always be careful when doing so. I understand that there should be room for debate and specualtion but something about the topic of life and questioning it makes me feel uneasy.