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From: viren@world2u.com (Viren Jain)
Subject: Re: ---<Definitions of consiousness>---
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I completely agree - I don't think it's unreasonable to thing that
when creating a list of characteristics and 'criteria' for life, they
would have tried to purposely exclude any nonbiological [in the
traditional sense] body.

>Ok lets use logic for a moment.  Ants and bees do NOT reproduce!  Only
>their queen can do that and that is (genetically speaking) a different
>species.  So I guess that according to that criteria those animals are
>NOT alive?  I have a feeling that that criteria was only added to
>exclude machines.
>
>Respiration?  Plants do that.  But so do ice-cristals which acquire
>substance from the air just like plants do and they do grow and they
>do multiply and they do move because they go where the cold goes.
>What the transport criteria means is not yet clear to me but I guess
>if it excludes ice-cristals then it will exclude plants as well.
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