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From: mjs14@unix.brighton.ac.uk (shute)
Subject: Re: Definitions of life
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Date: Wed, 23 Nov 1994 10:28:25 GMT
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In article <3almmo$ejd@crl2.crl.com> dbennett@crl.com (Andrea Chen) writes:
>Structurally there may be some truth to the statement that some
>computer viruses are more complex than certain living viruses.
>However this is only if we take the virus in isolation.  When
>we remember that the virus interacts with a device of currently
>unimaginable complexity known as the cell things become more
>complex.

Of course, the same could be said of computer viruses, too.
They only thrive and multiply because computers are kept running,
and software and data is shared between them; and computers are only
kept running, and software and data is shared between them, because
they serve a useful role in society.

If the homo sapiens species ceased to exist, computer viruses
would become extinct, too.

(Sorry to bore people with the obvious... :-)
-- 

Malcolm SHUTE.         (The AM Mollusc:   v_@_ )        Disclaimer: all
