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Re: When does an (M,R) system cease to be alive?

These is a very interesting thread...


One may make the "provocative" simplifying assertions that "metabolism" is
what proteins do...

Repair is the manufacture of more proteins by RNA

Replication is the manufacture of more RNA... (by special proteins)

If one were to suddenly get a disease that prevented replication in the
above sense, then the person would no longer be "closed to efficient cause"
but would by most people's definition still be alive until the persons
metabolism stopped.  Assume metabolism is sufficiently stopped when the
heart stops...

I agree that "life" and "being alive" are two different notions.