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Main Entry: life

Definition: animation

Synonyms: activity, being, breath, brio, dash, energy, enthusiasm, entity, esprit, essence, excitement, get-up-and-go*, go*, growth, heart, high spirits, impulse, lifeblood, liveliness, oomph*, sentience, soul, sparkle, spirit, verve, viability, vigor, vitality, vivacity, zest*, zing*, élan, élan vital

Antonyms: death, nonexistence

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* = informal or slang

 

Main Entry: life

Definition: duration

 

Main Entry: Life

Definition: being

Antonyms: inanimate object

 

Main Entry: life

Definition: biography

 

Main Entry: Life

Definition: experiences

 

Definition by Opinion

Life itself is a set of processes that are carried out by an organism causing it to survive.

 

A conventional definition

Although there is no universal agreement on the definition of life, scientists generally accept that the biological manifestation of life exhibits the following phenomena:…..

 

Other definitions

The systemic definition is that living things are self-organizing and autopoietic (self-producing). These objects are not to be confused with dissipative structures (e.g. fire).

 

Variations of this definition include Stuart Kauffman’s definition of life as an autonomous agent or a multi-agent system capable of reproducing itself or themselves, and of completing at least one thermodynamic work cycle.

 

Another definition is: "Living things are systems that tend to respond to changes in their environment, and inside themselves, in such a way as to promote their own continuation."

 

Yet another definition: "Life is a self-organizing, cannibalistic system consisting of a population of replicators that are capable of mutation, around most of which homeostatic, metabolizing organisms evolve." This definition does not include flames, but does include worker ants, viruses and mules. Without ‘most of’, it does not include viruses.

 

Self reproduction and energy consumption is only one means for a system to promote its own continuation. This explains why bees can be alive and yet commit suicide in defending their hive. In this case the whole colony works as such a living system.

 

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Animation, duration, being, experiences, existence, survive, reprodue? Just that and nothing else? By this definition I am surely alive. However every time I have thought that “yes now I am alive” – I have it’s a cycle that pulls down to the abyss. A cycle that is sometime so long that you start forgetting in which part you are. A cycle that is so irregular that some part of it seems to be having much short curvature than the rest. Those short bursts of time are when I start identifying with the meanings of life – as a living being”.

 

I am still searching for the meaning….