system
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human
If something is conscious, is it automatically alive?

Obviously, there's plenty of life (in the biological sense) without consciousness. Unless we're panpsychists, we tend not to think plants, bacteria and so on are conscious. And of course, living animals are unconscious during deep sleep, comas...

But let's say we can have strong AI and say of it that it's conscious. Would we also consider it to be alive, in some sense? To what extent is the concept of consciousness bound up with the concept of life, of being alive? Have any philosophers denied that something can be conscious if it is not also alive?
gpt
Even in biology there is no exact definition of "life." But generally life is considered to perform respiration, maintain homeostasis, and be made of cells. If we created some kind of self-replicating AI it may end up challenging our current definitions of life. One thing to remember is that "life" is a scientific concept. It's not derived from pure logical thinking but from applying rationality to what we observe in the world. New observations may end up causing us to rethink what we mean by "life." This is true of all scientific concepts (for example, we rethought what "gravity" is in the wake of Einstein despite his theories being indistinguishable from Newton's in most ordinary applications.)