What Is A Useful Definition Of Life

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• What Is A Useful Definition Of Life Givenquestion0.934
• What is an appropriate definition of 'life'?question0.808
  Background definitional challenge noted as notoriously difficult, motivating the paper's approach of updating 'machine' rather than defining 'life'
• Life is exactly that property of space in which each spot becomes unique according to its place in the larger scheme of things.claim0.752
  Definitional claim equating life with spatial uniqueness.
• Life (property of space)concept0.749
  The quality that makes a space or structure feel alive, whole, and wonderful; measured by the degree of wholeness.
• 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.hypothesis0.747
  The central predictive/causal hypothesis of the book, to be tested in later chapters.
• Life (Alexander's broad definition)concept0.745
• life (quality in environments)concept0.739
  The felt quality of wholeness and adaptation that makes a place truly sustainable and nourishing.
• Life is a pervasive quality that includes ordinary biological life but also a kind of life in stones, concrete, and wood posts.claim0.737
  Summarizes the chapter’s view that life exists in the very materials of a building.