Biological life (narrow mechanistic definition)

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• Life (Alexander's broad definition)concept0.804
• life (beyond-biological quality)concept0.800
  The general, non-biological quality that Alexander claims exists in all material systems to varying degrees.
• Life is a pervasive quality that includes ordinary biological life but also a kind of life in stones, concrete, and wood posts.claim0.772
  Summarizes the chapter’s view that life exists in the very materials of a building.
• Biological Individualityconcept0.769
  Central concept challenged in paper; traditionally defined by genetic identity or evolutionary units but shown to be more about cognitive organization and information integration.
• Xenobiology / Diverse Life Formsconcept0.756
• What we call 'life' is a general condition which exists, to some degree or other, in every part of space... every connected region of space... has some degree of life, and that this degree of life is well defined, objectively existing, and measurable.hypothesis0.753
  The central predictive/causal hypothesis of the book, to be tested in later chapters.
• Defining life as a semiotic phenomenonclaim0.752
  Emmeche's position that living systems are fundamentally semiotic; supports biosemiotic approach to cognition.
• Biological computation (scale-inseparable, hybrid dynamics)concept0.749