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by juvenalmuniz 1998 days ago
"Life is a chemical system that uses energy to keep itself from reaching chemical equilibrium."

I like the above "definition" from this YT video (This Ciliate is About to Die): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ibpdNqrtar0

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I think it misses the point that's key for my view of life: expanding to reagents around it, so it does not stay isolated in one Goldilocks location.