"OccamsRazor : To look at it from another perspective could life as we know it ever come to be without reproduction ? no . Perhaps now we have reached a state where we may soon be able to cheat death and become individually immortal we are still products of reproduvtive ancestors- remove those an we would never have been ."
"While your previous problem fell because it dealt with the future , this one falls because it deals with the past . I am interested in the NOW - the moment when the determination is being made . That PREVIOUS organisms needed to reproduce in order for things to end up where we are today does not tell us that it is REQUIREMENT for something existing NOW ( at the time the determination is being made ) to reproduce in order to be considered living ."
"could life as we know it ever come to be without reproduction ? no . able to cheat death and become individually immortal"
"PREVIOUS organisms needed to reproduce in order for things to end up where we are today does not tell us that it is REQUIREMENT for something existing NOW"