What is life?
Life is the art by which matter learns not merely to persist, but to participate.
TL;DR:
What is life?
Wrong question. Too broad.
Better: Under what conditions does a system maintain coherent self-renewal under entropy while remaining meaningfully distinct from, yet dependent upon, its world?
Life is not order, activity, or complexity. It is organised persistence that does not devour the basis of its own renewal.
The real distinction: sel…
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