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Life is a consequence of the nature of matter subject to the properties of space and time.
But also life is a response to that world. The inability to express that seeming dichotomy perfectly in words, since it is in fact a unity, shows one of the limitations inherent in spoken human languages. What is important here, however, is that both of those statements about life, though they could be thought of as being mutually exclusive, are true. Therefore life is activity on a field of potential. And because the potentials comprise a continuum, the possibilities that may be actualized are not numerable.