Re: what is life

From: Tim Tyler (tim_at_tt1lock.org)
Date: 09/01/04

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    TomHendricks474 <tomhendricks474@cs.com> wrote or quoted:

    > << I regard life as informational in nature - i.e. as pattern. From that
    > perspective, electron transport is an irrelevant implementation detail.
    > -- >>
    >
    > But you would concede that that informational nature is only within a narrow
    > temperature zone correct?

    Future organisms will probably not be anything like as confined (in terms
    of temperature) as modern ones are.

    Alternative technologies will most likely allow orgainsms to exist at both
    very low temperatures - and at very high temperatures.

    However: today, I think the records look something like:

    Cryptoendoliths: -15?C - and Pyrococcus furiosus: +113?C. 

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