But exactly what is it that is alive?

Entities in the same semantic neighborhood but without a typed relation to this one — candidates for new edges or unrecognized duplicates.

• Is a virus alive?question0.833
  Another awkward boundary case for the standard definition.
• If it is alive, it knows death. If it is truly alive, one can feel its own death within it, even while it lives.claim0.784
  Genuine life in an artwork or building contains an awareness of its own finitude, which manifests as sadness.
• Is a forest alive (as a whole, and over and above the life of the component species taken as individuals)?question0.752
  Pushes the boundaries of what counts as a living system.
• The I, in some form, exists.claim0.744
  Minimal conclusion that at least one of the two versions of the I-hypothesis must be true.
• In each of us, a person is existing, or waiting to exist; the most free version of that person occasionally appears briefly.claim0.743
• What is the life that we discern in things?question0.735
  The leading question of section 9, probing the nature of the inner life perceived in buildings and art.
• what is real life in a person? what kind of thing will produce real, deep life in an event?question0.734
  The spiritual question Alexander identifies as the foundation of choosing essential centers
• living worldconcept0.728
  The goal of sustainability: a world that is alive, beautiful, and whole, created by morphogenesis.