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Originally Posted by marsbug
Cougar: yes thats the kind of thing I'm driving at, thanks for the link!
It is an issue with the definition of life, but the definition of life is a mainstream concept, so suggesting it be changed would fall under against the mainstream wouldn't it? I'm not taking the mick if it belongs somewhere else please move it! I'm suggesting that 'alive' be an umbrella term for any system that has a certain amount of complexity, and that it doesn't need to show any specific behavoir other than having that level of complexity to qualify. Personally I'd spread the umbrella wider than kauffman, to include dusty plasmas and programming systems at least.
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Most of what you have said so far is pretty mainstream, the only ATM factor I can find is that you are allowing the possibility of Life at a very low level of complexity, which I'm sure is not mainstream.