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Re:Resetting the Clock of Life by otto_ortega on Monday August 14, 2017 @01:25AM (#15006713)
> Life has no clocks

Oh yes it has! it's arrow is called entropy and it ticks at the speed of atom decay.

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Re:Resetting the Clock of Life by lngnmn on Monday August 14, 2017 @11:07AM (#15009124)
From the life's point of view, so to speak, atoms are immutable. The actual process of decay are below the level of abstraction. Life "knows nothing" about it by definition.
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