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   From: Dawn.Belle.Flood@gmail.com   
      
   On 9/18/2025 9:29 PM, Oleg Smirnov wrote:   
   > Dawn Flood,    
   >> On 9/18/2025 8:13 PM, Oleg Smirnov wrote:   
   >>> JTEM,    
   >   
   >> It's right here:   
   >>   
   >> https://astrobiology.nasa.gov/research/life-detection/about/   
   >>   
   >> "A self-sustaining chemical system capable of Darwinian evolution".   
   >   
   > In no way it may be accepted as an accurate definition of life.   
   >   
   > Every/either system is chemical (as well as physical etc) system,   
   > so chemical-ness doesn't represent any informative specificity.   
   > What means "self-sustaining" - itself needs to be defined. And in   
   > order to make Darwinian evolution out one would need time much   
   > much longer than the characteristic lifespans of living organisms,   
   > including humans, so they would be unable to somehow employ this   
   > "definition" practically to define (see) life or non-life.   
   >   
   > NASA honestly state there that "for generations the definition of   
   > life has eluded scientists and philosophers", but they pretend   
   > dishonestly they have managed to somehow cope with this elusion.   
      
   What's your definition then?   
      
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