If it is alive, it knows death. If it is truly alive, one can feel its own death within it, even while it lives.

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• A cheetah in the glory of its life feels intensely alive, not just alive.claim0.804
  Shows that even among organisms we perceive degrees of life.
• We feel degrees of life in different organisms, even though technically they all have equal biological life.claim0.804
  Summarizes the observation of graded life within the category of living things.
• But exactly what is it that is alive?question0.784
  Rhetorical question probing the nature of life in a seemingly inorganic system.
• When I make something which has wholeness or life, I become more alive; when I make something dead, I become less alive.claim0.781
• Aliveness may be relative to user state; an interface alive for a tired user may be exhausting for an alert one.claim0.777
• "To live is to be other. It's not even possible to feel, if one feels today what he felt yesterday..."concept0.773
  Fernando Pessoa epigraph capturing the core paradox: persistence requires change, yet change threatens identity.
• The more it is alive, the more it seems faintly to shine.claim0.772
  Alexander's introspective observation about the qualitative appearance of life in things.
• When I look at a thing which has a living quality, sometimes I am aware of it, almost as if it is faintly glowing.quote0.768
  Alexander's direct experience of the luminous quality in living things.