Re: BIO: Defining "Life"
James Rogers (jamesr@best.com)
Thu, 09 Jan 1997 23:54:57 -0800
At 08:21 PM 1/9/97 -0600, you wrote:
>> It has always seemed obvious to me that our narrow definition of life is
>> hardly the criteria for such a vast place as the universe.
>
>Life is traditionally defined as things that can move, reproduce, and so
>on, but even this simple definition excludes mules, who are sterile.
>
>I define Life as:
>1) Anything designed primarily by evolution.
>2) Anything sentient.
AND, or OR?
> sentience@pobox.com Eliezer S. Yudkowsky
> http://tezcat.com/~eliezer/singularity.html
> http://tezcat.com/~eliezer/algernon.html
>Disclaimer: Unless otherwise specified, I'm not telling you
>everything I think I know.
>
>
-James Rogers
jamesr@best.com