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You can also think that "Life" is everything. Puddle of mud is life, it have streams, layers, densities, changes, reacting to environment. How does one cell i

You can also think that "Life" is everything. Puddle of mud is life, it have streams, layers, densities, changes, reacting to environment. How does one cell in your body knows about you? How does that cell understand your perception? Our understanding about life could be exactly like that one small cell perceives life. I think Life is not a chance, it is just a process that pops out wherever it can in whatever form it can. Diversity of life is dictated by environment in it. A ocean is so complex form of life also. Rocks around Saturn is very complex form of life. All it takes is just definition.

lukifer 13y ago
I too believe that the line between life and non-life is fuzzier than it looks, and that our four-dimensional information patterns are difficult to disentangle from the surrounding ecosystem, and the seemingly unalive habitat in which we dwell. And as a member of that grand super-being called Life, I implore you on bended knee: Paragraphs. Please.
pygy_ 13y ago
"Life" usually refers to an exothermic, self-sustaining phenomenon that can process, integrate and react to information. DNA, proteins, membranes, cells, etc. are IMO implementation details.
- TausAmmer 13y ago
  You tap rock, he responds with "hard" surface, sound, temperature. Rock can change shape depending on weather/location to adopt. But yes, as you said, definitions, same as someone defines "love", just no one understands what it is :D
- shameless_1 13y ago
  "Life" is like "species": different schools/universities/professors hold different definitions. Example in this context: a (bio) virus. It has no metabolism, without a host cell it's completely static. The academic world is kinda split when you ask someone in the field whether a virus is a living organism or not. According to one school of thought it's as much alive as a rock.

lukifer 13y ago

I too believe that the line between life and non-life is fuzzier than it looks, and that our four-dimensional information patterns are difficult to disentangle from the surrounding ecosystem, and the seemingly unalive habitat in which we dwell. And as a member of that grand super-being called Life, I implore you on bended knee: Paragraphs. Please.

pygy_ 13y ago

"Life" usually refers to an exothermic, self-sustaining phenomenon that can process, integrate and react to information. DNA, proteins, membranes, cells, etc. are IMO implementation details.

TausAmmer 13y ago
You tap rock, he responds with "hard" surface, sound, temperature. Rock can change shape depending on weather/location to adopt. But yes, as you said, definitions, same as someone defines "love", just no one understands what it is :D
shameless_1 13y ago
"Life" is like "species": different schools/universities/professors hold different definitions. Example in this context: a (bio) virus. It has no metabolism, without a host cell it's completely static. The academic world is kinda split when you ask someone in the field whether a virus is a living organism or not. According to one school of thought it's as much alive as a rock.