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For questions about living things. Does not exclude aliens, but additional information is usually necessary (consider using "xenobiology" instead).
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Biological refrigeration?
Yes, there are at least two plausible mechanisms. Compressor-based heat pumps don't seem very plausible for a biological process. However absorption refrigeratoration, mentioned in a comment by AlexP, …
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How close are we to eternal consciousness?
One possibility that I haven't seen considered in the existing answers: rather than just "far away", it might be fundamentally impossible.
First, a short anecdote: some time in the 90s I ran a primit …
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Plausible cause of a family only giving birth to females?
A mutation in mitochondrial DNA that causes the mitochondria to shut down or produce a lethal toxin in the presence of one of the following:
typical male levels of testosterone
Y chromosome (if the …