[fsloth]

I don't think you should confuse life and agency. I fail to see how a bacteria would have any agency.

[bryanrasmussen]

Well then if you found a place with bacteria but nothing advanced you would put in your captain's log that "the fundamental requirements for agency to arise were found, but as yet agency had not been achieved" or some such phrasing.

[ajuc]

> I fail to see how a bacteria would have any agency.

It does stuff on its own. That's agency.

[Razengan]

> I fail to see how a bacteria would have any agency.

Why would it not?