What Is A Useful Definition Of Life Given

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• What Is A Useful Definition Of Lifequestion0.934
• What is an appropriate definition of 'life'?question0.797
  Background definitional challenge noted as notoriously difficult, motivating the paper's approach of updating 'machine' rather than defining 'life'
• life (quality in environments)concept0.736
  The felt quality of wholeness and adaptation that makes a place truly sustainable and nourishing.
• 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.hypothesis0.736
  The central predictive/causal hypothesis of the book, to be tested in later chapters.
• Life (property of space)concept0.734
  The quality that makes a space or structure feel alive, whole, and wonderful; measured by the degree of wholeness.
• Life is exactly that property of space in which each spot becomes unique according to its place in the larger scheme of things.claim0.734
  Definitional claim equating life with spatial uniqueness.
• Life (Alexander's broad definition)concept0.734
• Defining life as a semiotic phenomenonclaim0.733
  Emmeche's position that living systems are fundamentally semiotic; supports biosemiotic approach to cognition.