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Author Topic:   Is there a border dividing life from non-life?
Fosdick 
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Message 130 of 132 (488474)
11-11-2008 7:32 PM
Reply to: Message 1 by sidelined
05-01-2004 11:47 PM


sidlined writes:
I hold that there is no actual border between the two and that it is a matter of bias on the part of we conscious humans.
The border in question may not be a physical or a chemical one. Instead, it may be an informational one. You could go to another planet with all the physical and chemical attributes of Earth, but if there were no genetic information there would be no life. Life didn't start until the genes got here. And that's border in question, IMO.
”FTF

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