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This isn't a fully formed point, just a thought.. but your air conditioner wouldn't exist without a living system directing matter to form an air conditioner; a
by Cyphase 3y ago
This isn't a fully formed point, just a thought.. but your air conditioner wouldn't exist without a living system directing matter to form an air conditioner; at least, it's so unlikely as to be practically impossible. So an air conditioner may not be a living system, but it's the product of a living system (at some point; maybe there are other non-living systems in the pipeline, e.g. factory robots).
- willis936 3y agoI don't understand a heat pump to be an inherently artificial thing, but I am struggling to think of an example of a naturally occurring heat pump. If there were natural valves and compressors (which there might be from certain perspectives) then I could see a naturally occurring heat pump being possible. It seems strange to say process devices are the thing that make a system living or not.