Comment on What if the idea of “life” and “intelligent life” is all relative?
sbeak@sopuli.xyz 2 weeks agoWow, I didn’t know what. Life probably is an “analog value”, since things like viruses exist where they don’t perfectly slot into our method of categorizing what is and isn’t life. This might be a question that will be asked until the end of time, what is life really?
supersquirrel@sopuli.xyz 2 weeks ago
Yes but I think Life is a question, and it can be answered by many different methods some of which are very difficult to prove if they fully answer the question or not… or impossible to prove at this moment.
Here is a blog post that I think describes Christopher Alexander’s (he says non-exhaustive and that the number of properties isn’t overly special, these can be divided or smushed together into more or less rules depending on your perspective) properties of things that have life well.
iamronen.com/…/christopher-alexander-the-fifteen-…