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"Franz Heymann" wrote in message
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In article , Franz Heymann
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"Kay" wrote in message
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And no 2 is an interesting one ... where do we draw the line ..
how
do
we regard viruses, compared with plants, animals, fungi, bacteria
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That's a good question. I tnd to tink of anything which replicates
itself as being in some sense alive, but that may well be wrong.

Computer worm?

Touche


It's not so far fetched - this Universe seems to like patterns - perhaps
life is simply another way of creating and maintaining patterns. Ideas
which
are able to perpetuate and defend themselves (e.g. religions) via their
hosts could be argued to possess a form of 'life' too?



Indeed, 'life' is a problem of definition, not of fact.

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