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Given the following post, respond as if you're commenting on Reddit:
human
ELI5: Is the apple I am currently eating biologically dead or alive? If it is dead, when did it die?

Thanks for all the responses! I've definitely learned something new today.
gpt
so "dead" isn't a binary state. it's a process. So when you pluck an apple, the process of "death" is triggered (not exactly but eli5).

Now, an apple has two parts. the seeds and the edible apple part. the seed is a possibility to life (like a fertilized chicken egg). the edible part is the food (the eggyolk). 

If you eat the apple (cook the egg) life never happens, if you lave it, it decays - and if t decays in a good spot and so forth and so on. you might get a tree. (or a chicken)