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Yes, but clearly computers are also fantastically complex clockwork automatons, and they aren't alive. So it's not a complete definition.
by Scarblac 9y ago
Yes, but clearly computers are also fantastically complex clockwork automatons, and they aren't alive. So it's not a complete definition.
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- trevyn 9y agoRight! I suspect our intuitive definition of life includes a biological substrate. If I were somehow able to to engineer a new species of viable biological organism, possibly even not using any existing DNA building blocks, I think most people would consider the result "alive". When really I just created a new program for molecular machinery to run.