Bio Systems
Defining and finding lifelike entities with a lazy filter.
Mario Martinez-Saito
Published: 202510.1016/j.biosystems.2025.105672
Abstract
Our binary intuitive understanding of life and lifelikeness is good enough for daily life, but not for research in the natural sciences. Here we propose an operational definition of the lifeness of an entity, or object defined by its structure, as a…
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