   Forgot your password? Earth Science  Boiling Down the Meaning
of Life 218  Shipud writes "A recent article in Journal of
Biomolecular structure and Dynamics proposes to define life by
semantic voting [Note: open-access article]: 'The definitions of
life are more than often in conflict with one another.
Undeniably, however, most of them do have a point, one or
another or several, and common sense suggests that, probably,
one could arrive to a consensus, if only the authors, some two
centuries apart from one another, could be brought together. One
thing, however, can be done – short of voting in absentia –
asking which terms in the definitions are the most frequent and,
thus, perhaps, reflecting the most important points shared by
many.' The author arrives at a six-word definition, as explained
here."  Boiling Down the Meaning of Life  Comments Filter:   •
by bazald (886779) <bazaldNO@SPAMzenipex.com> on Sunday February
12, 2012 @04:52AM (#39009963) Homepage      Life may have many
definitions but no meaning