Elaris parent
It’s funny how something as strange as a methane powered sea spider can make you rethink what “life” even means. Energy, structure, feedback it’s all there, just in a form we weren’t expecting. The deep sea keeps humbling us.
Someone asked 40 scientists what is their definition of life and the clustered them with LLMs. The results were incredibly varied: https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.15849