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From: 5LG3 (Terrill Snyder)
Subject: Re: "What is Life?"
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In article <gbrown.140.00601186@ozemail.com.au>, gbrown@ozemail.com.au (gerry browne) says:
>
>It seems impossible to describe a set of rules that can be applied to 
>determine if something posseses life but it is easy to determine the states 
>before and after life.
>
>1.  The state before life is creation.
>2.  The next state after life is death.
>
>The definition of life is then something that experiences creation followed at 
>some later time by death.  I don't believe that the laws of physics allow 
>anything to have an eternal existance so death always follows life.
>
>Gerry Browne
>
>
>==================================
>A naked jesus wrote this signature
>==================================

The thing that was alive, possessed a complex pattern, and after it died,
it no longer did.  Where was the pattern located?  Which is more important,
the pattern, or the substrate that it is imprinted on?  

Terrill Snyder
