What makes an object "alive"?

Answer #1

Movement? Thought? Emotion? And when I say that, I also mean in an more artistic way as well.

Answer #2

The ability to think and act of its own accord, whilst analyzing its surroundings, while holding an opinion. The problem with that is sometimes i wonder whether some people qualify

Answer #3

Energy consumption (it eats) and reproduction.

Answer #4

No offence to the first two answers… plants are alive and cannot move own their own or have thought… i don’t believe that micro-organisms have thought either.

Answer #5

If it is aware of the world around it, then it is alive

Answer #6

If it breathes, and eats…its alive.

Answer #7

M.R.S.N.E.R.G - Movement, Respiration, Sensitivity, Nutrition, Excretion, Reproduction and Growth.

Answer #8

It can respond to stimulus and it can reproduce.

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