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Fire. Is it alive?
Fire breathes oxygen. Fire eats and fire reproduces itself.
>> Anonymous
Philosophically: fire is the paragon of life. For those with the money to spend enough time thinking about this as to reach the point where a philosophical approach has meaning, great. For real people, like me, the situation is approached biologically: no.
>> I PROVEDED YOUR POINTS Kilt Man
>>190701

-Consumes wood/fuel and excretes ash
-Makes more of itself by spreading to more fuel
-Responds to stimuli - throw water on it, and it will hiss
-it grows with more fuel
>> Anonymous
oh boy a philosophical argument... oh wait no one cares.
>> Anonymous
>>190705
Im pretty sure he was agreeing with the ops statement. damn, you're stupid
>> Anonymous
Nope fire cant control what it consumes. Which makes it not living. According to my science teacher
>> Anonymous
We've moved beyond the ancient greek definition of life, so this is no longer a burning (haha) question. A more interesting discussion is: are viruses alive?
>> Anonymous
Fire does not undergo evolution.
>> Anonymous
*Silence*
>> elf_man !!DdAnyoDMfCe
Fire is a process, an intense local heat reaction. What we think of as fire is just a visual representation of that intense heat. That's it. It doesn't reproduce, the reaction spreads. Even a virus engages in more reproduction than fire. You've got wood hot enough to burn, lets hold more wood by it and see what happens. That isn't reproduction, that's just more fuel being heated to the point of burning.
>> Anonymous
>>190736
how do you know?
>> Anonymous
Fire fighter here
Wdoes not actually burn, a joke among us is it's all in your head. But whats really going on is heat produces off gassing and that gas burns due to the heat. Not sure what that has to do with the convo but I always thought it was cool.
Fire is alive and I can not explain to you why. Next time you get a change to see a running crown fire up close you will know what I mean though.
>> Anonymous
ITT failures of 8th grade biology
>> Anonymous
>>190726
can't reproduce on its own accord
>> Anonymous
>>190752
Hey are you the guy from that Are You Afraid of the Dark episode