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		goatlover on Jan 15, 2019 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: What is Life? by Erwin Schrödinger (1944) [pdf] The lines are drawn based on what biology we have available to us. If we ever discover alien biology, the lines might be drawn more broadly. But we don't know until then.

hopler on Jan 16, 2019 [–]

It's still a bit arbitrary. Why is the water cycle in a mountain/coud/river not a living process, but the ATP cycle in a cell is?

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