[Zeno]

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I guess Zeno just wanted to make an arbitrary definition for some reason. Something to do with some article that took his fancy.


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I made no definition of life myself. I posted some links that gave some defining charateristics on what is life. The first link also went into more detail and depth on a definition of life and the possible defects and/or limitations that a definition may impose.

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Personally I find a strict definition of life not worth the effort, just leave it to ones gut feeling otherwise its too confusing.

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First, see my book recommendation in a previous post above. Second, arbitrary gut feelings lead to confusion - In fact, much more confusion than the employment of the scientific method I would submit. The last 400 years of the history of science has proven that. But many people find this easy to dismiss. This is not surprising but it is unfortunate.

-Zeno