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lightreadsLife's Edge
3/5. Brief nonfiction tour of scenarios that uncomfortably challenge the lay and scientific consensus on what it means to be alive. To the extent there is consensus, which is not as much as you'd think. Hits the obvious ones early on – gametes and also people declared brain dead in long-term comas on life support – then swings through a succession of weird cellular and animal examples. Interesting, but not going to blow your mind open if you've spent even a small amount of time reading in biology or medicine.
3/5. Brief nonfiction tour of scenarios that uncomfortably challenge the lay and scientific consensus on what it means to be alive. To the extent there is consensus, which is not as much as you'd think. Hits the obvious ones early on – gametes and also people declared brain dead in long-term comas on life support – then swings through a succession of weird cellular and animal examples. Interesting, but not going to blow your mind open if you've spent even a small amount of time reading in biology or medicine.