Is a fertilized egg alive during its first few minutes?

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

• In each step of a living process one must be able to feel, ahead of time, the feeling which will later exist in the finished object, without yet knowing its form in detail.claim0.705
• We can sense, ahead of time, the quality of the completed whole, even when we cannot yet visualize it.claim0.700
• If it is alive, it knows death. If it is truly alive, one can feel its own death within it, even while it lives.claim0.697
  Genuine life in an artwork or building contains an awareness of its own finitude, which manifests as sadness.
• The number of embryos emerging from an embryonic blastoderm is not genetically fixed but determined in real-time by physiological processes.claim0.696
  Highlights dynamical determination of individuality through collective autopoiesis.
• Is a virus alive?question0.695
  Another awkward boundary case for the standard definition.
• I doubt if we shall plumb the full extent to which a living structure is created until we have thoroughly explored and understood just what these ancient builders did, in what frame of mind they did it, and with what attitude.claim0.691
  A statement of incompleteness: our understanding misses the inner state of the builders, which is essential.
• How, in a living process, do we take the first steps of design so that a beautiful, coherent whole begins to take shape?question0.688
  Transition to the problem of design process.
• "the number of embryos emerging from the excitable medium of an embryonic blastoderm is not genetically fixed but determined in real-time by physiological processes"quote0.683
  Key finding establishing that biological individuality is dynamically determined by collective coordination, not hardwired genetics.