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Defining Life in Three Words

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Defining Life in Three Words
January 13, 2012

“Pushing against entropy”

A slightly longer version to clarify what I’m getting at: “Life is a property of a system whereby it increases the entropy of its environment so as to lower the entropy within the system itself.”



Alex's comment: The best definition of life I've ever seen!
生命的定義:「生命」是一個物理系統中的一種特性,它透過提高系統外環境的熵(亂)以降低系統內的熵。

引申:人是動物,動物是生物,生物是物理系統;人是物理系統。