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We propose to [...] view life from a more global, statistical perspective. No single molecule of gas has a macroscopic property like temperature; temperature is meaningful only for a large population of molecules. Similarly, no single organism exhibits indefinitely ongoing life [...]. From a global perspective, only for a large population of molecules. Similarly, no single organism exhibits indefinitely ongoing life [...]. From a global perspective, only the complex web of interacting organisms - the entire biosphere - remains “alive” in the long run, through the continual cycle of birth and death of individual organisms. [...] An organism is alive only if it is a member of an actively evolving biosphere.

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Life is a self-Living matter is that which avoids the decay into equilibrium. The second law of thermodynamics says that entropy (disorder) always increases. Living things are highly ordered and seem to go against the second law of thermodynamics; however, they can only do this at the cost of increasing the entropy in the environment around them.

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Life is a self-replicating, evolving system based on organic chemistry.

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Life is first and foremost a microbial phenomenon. [...] Living things display complex organization [...] they carry out metabolism (energy generation in particular) reproduce their own kinds, and have functional parts adapted to their environment. [...] Life is a quality or attribute of entities that meet the criteria. They come in a vast range of shapes and sizes, from Escherichia coli to the blue whale, but the minimal units that meet all the criteria are microbial cells, both prokaryotic and eukaryotic.

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Life is an expected collectively self-organized property of catalytic polymers.

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Life can be recognized by what it does: living organisms create hallmark molecules and create chemical disequilibrium.

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Life [...] is defined as a network of inferior negative feedbacks (regulatory mechanisms [in the service of sustaining the identity of the individual - any deviation from some parameter sets in motion a series of steps to get back to the default value, like a thermostat]) subordinated to (being at service of) a superior positive feedback (potential of expansion [i.e. replication]).

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Life is a self-sustained chemical system capable of undergoing Darwinian evolution. [Definition adopted by NASA]

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Life is a material system that undergoes reproduction, mutation, and natural selection.

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Life is self-reproduction with variations. [Trifanov identified the commonalities in 150 definitions of life to get to this idea.]

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There are seven pillars of life: a Program (an organized plan), Improvisation (a way to change the program), Compartmentalization (a means of separating self from the outside world), Energy (to fuel chemical reactions), Regeneration (to repair and replace itself), Adaptability (to respond to the environment), and Seclusion (to insulate chemical reactions from each other).

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Living organisms are autopoetic systems. [In other words, they make more of themselves.]

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Life is a property of form, not matter, a result of the organization of matter rather than something that inheres in the matter itself. Neither nucleotides nor amino acids nor any other carbon-chain molecule is alive - yet put them together in the right way, and the dynamic behavior that emerges out of their interactions is what we call life. It is effects, not things, upon which life is based - life is a kind of behavior, not a kind of stuff - and as such it is constituted of simpler behaviors, not simpler stuff.

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Living things are systems that tend to respond to changes in their environment, and inside themselves, in such a way as to promote their own continuation.