Life

Dwarf Fortress is a storytelling engine as much as it is a game, spitting out associations and facts and details that you can shape into a coherent and specific narrative. This is also what we do to our own lives, personifying random events so that they feel significant rather than a matter of chance. Life isn’t usually a satisfying narrative. It isn’t so much that “Dwarf Fortress” is a perfect simulacrum of life, but that it shines a bright light on the human tendency to look for meaning in everything. I care about my dwarves because the stories I make up about their lives are also the ones I make up about my own.
-- Launcher (The Washington Post) | Dec 15, 2022washingtonpost.com
I often lay in bed and have to convince myself that brushing my teeth is an important task and should be done, even though it is 3 minutes of doing nothing but brushing my teeth. I will waste about 10 minutes struggling to get up to do it.reddit.com
Waters inside, waters outside. There is an ocean within your blood, everything you have ever been is a part of you. You are life, your heritage is life. Fight for it.
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~ Yaldabaoth to a newly ascended Ion in "Ever, Only, All".villains.fandom
Life is a term with a heterodoxy of meanings, definitions both formal and informal.
The life (נֶפֶשׁ) of the animals created in Genesis 1:20-30 is the same as the “soul” breathed into humans in 2:7. 
[Lucas Mix, Publ. 2013.]One definition seems to be favored by NASA: “a self-sustaining chemical system capable of Darwinian evolution.” More simply, life is, "matter that can reproduce itself and evolve as survival dictates".-- En Wiki‘Life’ is a concept as old as history, and no doubt older. It seems impossible to imagine a mind of logos which doesn't have a concept of life. In a very common sense, simply having an experience of things happening constitutes a life. Life is something we all live. Lives do life. Life does life. Organisms have tendencies to try to stay alive. What life is has been answered from multiple perspectives and traditions, as well as what it is for. Life is the emperor's currency, spend it well.
== Branching ==
* See: Value; Health; Biology; Value of life in different traditions; Eugenics; Quality of life; 
* Lifestyle; Pro-life.
* Life extension; Life prediction; Longevity; Biogerontology
* "Machine life"; Cybernetic organism (Cyborg; Cyborg life); Cyberlife
Category:Biology