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<blockquote data-quote="Yaarel" data-source="post: 8446917" data-attributes="member: 58172">A &quot;species&quot; assumes the ability to reproduce others of its kind.On the other hand, there are methods of reproduction that are asexual, and so on.If a computer can self-replicate, by building an other computer, it becomes a candidate as a species.If a D&amp;D warforged can self-replicate by building a warforged golem and then imbuing it with consciousness, then it is a &quot;species&quot;.If every dragonborn was created directly by an individual dragon who transmuted a dragon egg. That would still be a species because of its replicability.The method of reproduction matters less when defining a species.Undead comprise replicable species: vampire, zombie, etcetera.A ghost is more complicated, because it is the mind of a dead human. A ghost seems less whole and feels different from an embodied living human. So, the transformation may merit a separate species. (Norse culture considers humanity and ghosts to be different kinds of nature beings.) Possibly the mind of a human splits up after death into different species, the ghost descending into the Shadowfell, the higher self ascending to the Celestials, and the physical identity transforming and reincarnating. A resurrection needs to regroup all of these aspects of mind and body.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Yaarel, post: 8446917, member: 58172"] A "species" assumes the ability to reproduce others of its kind. On the other hand, there are methods of reproduction that are asexual, and so on. If a computer can self-replicate, by building an other computer, it becomes a candidate as a species. If a D&D warforged can self-replicate by building a warforged golem and then imbuing it with consciousness, then it is a "species". If every dragonborn was created directly by an individual dragon who transmuted a dragon egg. That would still be a species because of its replicability. The method of reproduction matters less when defining a species. Undead comprise replicable species: vampire, zombie, etcetera. A ghost is more complicated, because it is the mind of a dead human. A ghost seems less whole and feels different from an embodied living human. So, the transformation may merit a separate species. (Norse culture considers humanity and ghosts to be different kinds of nature beings.) Possibly the mind of a human splits up after death into different species, the ghost descending into the Shadowfell, the higher self ascending to the Celestials, and the physical identity transforming and reincarnating. A resurrection needs to regroup all of these aspects of mind and body. [/QUOTE]

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