On the definition of life

Journal for General Philosophy of Science / Zeitschrift für Allgemeine Wissenschaftstheorie 25 (1):97 - 106 (1994)
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Schrödinger's definition of life needs a slight modification to absorb the criticism of it. It is the comparison of the entropy level of a system before and after a process which makes one view it as living: we consider the stability of the deviation from the probable a sign of life. This explains why we do not hesitate to consider as remnants of living systems skeletons and fossils anywhere and physical culture on any archeological site

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Joseph Agassi
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The Nature of Thermodynamics.P. W. Bridgman - 1942 - Philosophy of Science 9 (3):281-281.

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