From: "Tony Ingenoso" 

To me "alive" implies mechanism.  Viruses strike me more as
message than mechanism.  If viruses are alive, then any self replicating
machine is "alive".

"John Beckett"  wrote
in message news:3efac168.4989814{at}216.144.1.254...
>
> Anyway, Gene dismisses we "Not alive" people, with all our
childish URL
> referernces. "Viruses are obviously alive!", he says, there
is no doubt.
>
> John

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