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   From: Kenito@Benito.naw   
      
   On Fri, 19 Sep 2025 15:40:26 +0300, "Oleg Smirnov"    
   wrote:   
      
   >Andrew,    
   >> "Oleg Smirnov" wrote in message news:10ahs6p$488c$1@os.motzarella.org...   
   >>> JTEM wrote ,   
   >   
   >>>> Yup. They ensure us that they began with an absolutely sterile   
   >>>> environment -- completely devoid of any living thing -- and under   
   >>>> the strictest laboratory conditions they turned it into life...   
   >>>   
   >>> How do we (living humans) distingwish between what is a   
   >>> living thing and what is a non-life? This question seems   
   >>> to be needed to be answered first before speculations on   
   >>> artificial creation of life from non-life. Practically,   
   >>> we do distingwish between them pretty well, but we don't   
   >>> understand well enough the way we do the distingwition.   
   >>> It'd be easier if we had some formal criteria to clearly   
   >>> separate life from non-life. But, AFAIK, there's no such   
   >>> criteria accepted both necessary and sufficient.   
   >>   
   >> Living things are able to carry out bio-chemical reactions   
   >> in the process of their metabolism. They grow, reproduce   
   >> and respond to stimuli   
   >   
   >Also they are collective, and (except the autotrophs)   
   >they survive through killing or injuring living things   
   >from other species and eating their flesh.   
   >   
      
        Most certainly can. There are herbivores; life forms that eat   
   only plant matter. I think elephants are one such life form. There are   
   others, of course.   
      
   [...]   
      
   --   
   Kenito Benito   
   Strategic Writer,   
   Psychotronic World Dominator.   
   And FEMA camp counselor.   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
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