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(1994) Journal for General Philosophy of Science 25 (1).
Schrödinger's definition of life needs a slight modification to absorb the criticism of it. It is the comparison of the entropy level of a system before and after a process which makes one view it as living: we consider the stability of the deviation from the probable a sign of life. This explains why we do not hesitate to consider as remnants of living systems skeletons and fossils anywhere and physical culture on any archeological site.
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DOI: 10.1007/BF00769279
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Schejter, A. , Agassi, J. (1994). On the definition of life. Journal for General Philosophy of Science 25 (1), pp. 97-106.