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LI Jianhui
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DOI:10.17265/2159-5313/2019.09.001
The definition of life is a very important issue in the philosophy of biology, but this issue has unfortunately been neglected by the mainstream philosopher of biology for many years. In this paper, the difficulties with and the reasons for defining life are illustrated, the characteristics of life on Earth are explored, ways of defining life are examined, the main definitions of life are explained and evaluated, and finally, a new information definition of life is proposed.
definition of life, entity definition, functional definition, metabolism definition, autopoiesis definition, supple adaptation definition, information definition
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