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Re:Life by ingenuous2 on Sunday July 09, 2017 @05:47PM (#14731874)
Is a computer virus that mutates itself via an evolutionary algorithm considered life?
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Re:Life by jrs95 on Sunday July 09, 2017 @06:35PM (#14732091)
I would say yes. It's just not biological
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Re:Life by chongli on Sunday July 09, 2017 @08:26PM (#14732544)
What? That's like saying "this drug causes sleep, it's just not soporific".
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Re:Life by cgmg on Monday July 10, 2017 @03:07AM (#14733929)
What makes you think life can only be biological? What about artificial life and digital organisms?
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Re:Life by chongli on Monday July 10, 2017 @08:42AM (#14735359)
The word biological just refers to life or living organisms. So anything that's alive is also biological, by definition.
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