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re: Thank you for your interesting answer.
Johannes — (archived)

And no, I’m not disappointed, I asked for your definition of life and you gave it to me.

What is really interesting is; like you said; it works “ against the law of thermodynamics,” and that seems to indicate (to me at least) that life is something fundamental in the universal scheme of things, something similar to mass and energy.

One way that I have looked at the definition of the fundamental meaning of the word life is that if it moves it has life, if it does not have any motion then it is dead.

From this fundamental perspective then, everything in the universe has life because everything moves in some way or another.

From this perspective; to be alive, means that the being/entity can control the movement and the greater the movement, comprehension and manipulating ability of the being, then the higher it is on the life scale.

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