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crashfrog
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Message 133 of 141 (53953)
09-05-2003 12:58 AM
Reply to: Message 131 by sidelined
09-04-2003 11:41 PM


We must be able to fully define the point at which we consider something as alive as opposed to inanimate before we can give a sufficient investigation into the process.Anybody here have an idea of how we can do this?
I would suggest that those things that we call "alive" have these properties:
1) The ability to utilize energy and matter in the environment to construct/maintain itself and its functions (if any)
2) The ability to, through some process, make more of itself
3) Possession of a mechanism for heritable change
I submit that this describes everything that we refer to as alive. (I don't consider viruses or prions alive as they meet only one of these criteria. Perhaps biologists disagree.)

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crashfrog
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Message 136 of 141 (53993)
09-05-2003 6:48 AM
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09-05-2003 6:22 AM


Is cryptolife life?
When it's a spore? I guess not. Not to me, anyway. It will be when it un-spores, though.
Suspended animation is clearly a great strategy for surviving drought, etc. But it's hardly something we'd expect to find a whole planet's ecology based on. I hardly think we're over-narrowing our search if we restrict it to life that's actually doing something.

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