alt Hacker News> and still nobody has gone beyond Aristotle and Kant in giving anything close to a rigorous definition of life as such
You stopped reading after the 1800's? Schrödinger told us life is what feeds on negative entropy and that is pretty good.
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applicative • yesterday at 12:24 PM
Look into Aristotle and Kant on ‘the organized /and self-organizing/ being’; apply a couple thermodynamic abstractions known to adolescents ; be named Erwin Schrödinger ; hackernews will respond accordingly.
inigyou • yesterday at 9:54 AM
Freezing water is life?
I guess that is true, but it isn't much. But my basic point was that before you can have "life" you have to have a theory of life which ultimately requires metaphysics, and there hasn't been much of an update to our understanding of what would ground a definition of life beyond Aristotle and Kant, and even their work is not determinative by any means.