Nick Douglas discussing ""Existence Exists"" with William Elliot...
 ND> I messed up writing the probability one, but as for life and existence,
 ND> won't you define them? What makes something alive? Energy? Flashlights
 ND> have it. The ability to be random?
The ability to be random?? Please give an example.
 ND> Computers achieve true randominity (sp?).
Randomness.
Really? How do they do that then? Computers work to mathematical principles. 
Please show us which mathematical formula a computer uses to give us a 
different answer each time we enter the same numbers into it.
 ND> Now, define life in such a way that by your descriptions, all
 ND> known living things are verified as life, and all non-living or dead
 ND> things are excluded.
Self-replication. Things that are dead don't reproduce.
    Relatif Tuinn
... Anything you say will be distorted and remixed and used against you.
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