ND>I messed up writing the probability one, but as for life and
ND>existence, won't you define them? What makes something alive? Energy?
ND>Flashlights have it. The ability to be random? Computers achieve true
ND>randominity (sp?). Now, define life in such a way that by your
ND>descriptions, all known living things are verified as life, and all
ND>non-living or dead things are excluded.
Life is a process of self-generating and self-sustaining action.
Life is that which must pursue specific courses of action in order to
continue to exist.
These actions may be automatic, as in a tree, or necessitate decisions
based in instinct, as in a wolf, or decisions based in thought, as in a
man.
      Not to trust, but to know,              
                              Matt Eggleston
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