Re: what is life

From: haiguang (eagleliu_at_hotmail.com)
Date: 08/03/04


Date: Tue, 3 Aug 2004 04:25:08 +0000 (UTC)


"RNA" <lixin@mail.kiz.ac.cn> wrote in message news:<cehmdu$315s$1@darwin.ediacara.org>...
> I want to know wether virus is life? We know virus can form crystal
> stage for many years. When they are in suitable environment, they still
> can infect and replicate. Do we can call them life?
> Does life have purpose? Dose a cell of our body have consciousness? I
> think they don't know what they are doing. Any sigle cell know what it
> is. But a number of cells which form a interactive system know this. I
> think life is formation to damage the world, to increase entropy of the
> world. They just are tools to complete the purpose that physical
> principle determined. Life is nothing but a process.

To continue that process, I believe that life need to be able to
replicate itself. The purpose of life can be thought to be existing.



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