Brent - REPRODUCTION???? - in our 'biology' there is only one strain that reproduces: the prokaryotes by mitosis. In most(?) heterosex procreation you take TWO DIFFERENT ENTITIES and by combining some products of them you CREATE a third one, not identical to any of the "procreating" parents. Biologist friends were surprised, but finally agreed. There was ONE smartAlec who changed my topic to 'reproduction of the SPECIES' - which is fine, as long as we know much enough of the details of that 'specie' - what we usually don't. (Cf: drug-resistence of microbes). "For an alien all humans are identical, even many animal kinds included." I would not deny the Robert Rosen characteristics-cryterion: his M & R the Metabolism and Repair. I don't find it a definitive description, but in most cases it works fine as "main" attribute. Reproduction? no way. A mule is alive. JohnM
On Mon, Sep 23, 2013 at 2:07 PM, Craig Weinberg <[email protected]>wrote: > > > On Monday, September 23, 2013 12:45:00 PM UTC-4, Brent wrote: >> >> >> >> For 'life', in contrast to 'being alive', I'd add reproduction. That's >> the real defining >> characteristic of life. >> >> > You don't have to reproduce to be alive though, and any chain reaction can > be considered reproduction. To me, life is more about a quality of > sensitivity which can produce intentionally sustained action against > entropy. > > Craig > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Everything List" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/everything-list. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/everything-list. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
