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pedanterrific comments on What is life? - Less Wrong Discussion

9 Post author: Douglas_Reay 01 April 2012 09:12PM

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Comment author: pedanterrific 03 April 2012 06:34:45PM *  0 points [-]

Well, obviously not; all atoms of the same type are the same. I assumed he meant molecules. (As in, able to synthesize all biologically relevant molecules. All molecules of the same type are the same too, of course.)