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I'm a bit dumb. If it's not a mystery anymore, can you tell me in a sentence what life is, in a way everybody scientifically agree ?

• Koshkin 10y ago
  Obviously, the word 'life' has multiple meanings; at the most fundamental - and I'd say, the least interesting - level it is the now pretty well-understood mode of collective behavior as well as the variety of processes and mechanisms that have naturally evolved to ensure the perpetual existence of a mass of large molecules of a certain kind (viz. proteins).
  • visarga 10y ago
    In short, self replication in a complex environment where the replicators have to find resources (energy and nutrients), cooperate and compete against other agents.
    • sametmax 10y ago
      That's a very mechanical definition. Do you mean that if we create a robot with a decent IA enough to do that we would have created life ?