Re: BIO: Defining "Life"

From: Eliezer Yudkowsky (sentience@pobox.com)
Date: Sun Jan 12 1997 - 09:56:16 MST

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> >I define Life as:
> >1) Anything designed primarily by evolution.
> >2) Anything sentient.
>
> AND, or OR?

OR. Within my original post, I called for a definition including mules,
who are not (as far as I know) sentient.

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