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