>Not directly How can you possibly tell? Yes, Brownian motion looks random and meaningless to us, but how could you tell it does not look meaningful to someone

>Not directly How can you possibly tell? Yes, Brownian motion looks random and meaningless to us, but how could you tell it does not look meaningful to someone? >It makes life possible, but it's not alive by itself because it does not meet the formal criteria. If you accept that the sun might be alive you must accept that water might be alive, since you can't definitively say that computation is not happening in either of them. >Just like a single transistor is not a CPU. I can't say for certain that a transistor is not a CPU to someone. A single atom could hypothetically be powerful enough to compute something.