| What is life -
03-29-2006, 12:15 AM
Some questions you need to address are:
1) Is a virus alive? It can self replicate, however only in a milieu which is highly contingent (it requires specific organisms to propagate).
2) Is a fire alive? It can self replicate, but does not inherit characteristics of the parentage particularly (besides being hot)
3) Is a powerful set of ideas alive as a meme? If it propagates itself from person to person, is that meme set alive, or not?
Last edited by zeroca : 04-05-2006 at 05:01 AM.
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