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Comment author: Douglas_Reay 01 April 2012 10:09:16PM 0 points [-]

Are other approaches to life any more productive at categorising whether an individual being is alive, such as Dawkins' "non-random survival of randomly varying self-replicators" or Lehninger's "living organisms preserve their internal order by taking Gibbs free energy from their surroundings" ?