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From: lintz@cis.udel.edu (Brian Lintz)
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Subject: Re: computer life?
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Date: 26 Feb 91 15:44:15 GMT
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In article <willdye.667540138@typhoon> willdye@typhoon.unl.edu writes:
>...and then there is the 'realpolitik' approach to defining life...
     
   [stuff deleted]

>The point is, in the real world, a definition is not merely what
>we think it is as we sit in bemused academia. 

>Hmmm.  'Sounds cynical and ineloquent, but can you see my point?

>		willdye@typhoon.unl.edu

I do see your point, but I think you are talking legal definition of life,
while the original poster was talking scientific definition of life.
Intersting article though.

Brian Lintz