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by ingenuous2 3268 days ago
Is a computer virus that mutates itself via an evolutionary algorithm considered life?
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jrs95 3268 days ago
I would say yes. It's just not biological
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chongli 3267 days ago
What? That's like saying "this drug causes sleep, it's just not soporific".
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cgmg 3267 days ago
What makes you think life can only be biological? What about artificial life and digital organisms?
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chongli 3267 days ago
The word biological just refers to life or living organisms. So anything that's alive is also biological, by definition.
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