@DrTomFroese As to prevent it looking like I'm making a critique for no reason I would consider citing again here the wonderful paper by Cleland and Chyba on attempts to define life https://t.co/9pGOqBMhDM
@DrTomFroese @ALifeConf @ksk_S @manuelbaltieri @m_aguilera_ I believe you might be aware of this paper by Cleland and Chyba-https://t.co/9pGOqBMhDM where it's proposed that whoever manages to formulate an universal biological theory of what life is would a
>no one in the scientific community can define life:< Er... I just did. It's what you are complaining about.
What a sad piece of denialism. Of course it's a perfectly useful definition since it describes exactly what living organism do that distinguished them from non-living aggregates. I'm sorry if that isn't what you want but science just doesn't care about y
@RosaRubicon 1) What you present is not a workable definition of life...Again, no one in the scientific community can define life: https://t.co/WkQ55SaNja