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  1. nautil.us10/21/2016 min
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    • Ruchita_Ganurkar3 years ago

      Deep thoughts about biology & physics together in this conversation. Some explanations really needed to be a rethink, because we've forgotten that the difference between physics and biology is that they are different languages for talking about the same world.

      What I find is that when I focus on any one of those properties, you can always find examples and counter-examples. If you were loose enough in your understanding of what it means to copy yourself, for instance, then a spreading fire is a self-copying phenomenon. But to call a fire alive is a really contentious extension of the domain of that word.