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Whether a Virus Is Alive, Revisited

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Whether a virus is alive is genuinely open: a virion has no metabolism of its own, yet its genome evolves.

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One side denies life per Bio 1917; the other grants it, since a virus evolves and adapts inside a host.

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Both sides accept the same facts about a virion — they differ only in which facts should count as defining life.

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