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The Meaning of Life

Started by Unbeliever, September 14, 2007, 03:49:56 pm

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Unbeliever

September 14, 2007, 03:49:56 pm Last Edit: November 18, 2008, 01:31:45 pm by Unbeliever
http://www.seedmagazine.com/news/2007/09/the_meaning_of_life.php

My own definition of the word "life" is:

A highly complex self-organizing system or process that maintains itself in a disequilibrium state relative to its environment for a nontrivial period of time.
"Some say God is living there [in space]. I was looking around very attentively, but I did not see anyone there. I did not detect either angels or gods....I don't believe in God. I believe in man - his strength, his possibilities, his reason."
Gherman Titov, Soviet cosmonaut, in The Seattle Daily Ti