"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 ."
"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"
"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 -"