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== <span style="font-size:26px;">What are life, information, and the universe? (as information processing objects)</span> ==
=== <span style="font-size:20px;">Life:<br/span> === <span style="font-size:20px;"> 1. the condition that distinguishes animals and plants from inorganic matter, including the capacity for growth, reproduction, functional activity, and continual change preceding death. (Oxford languages) <br/> <br/> 2. Life is defined as <span style="color:#c0392b;">'''any system capable of performing functions'''</span> such as eating, <span style="color:#e74c3c;">'''metabolizing'''</span>, excreting, breathing, moving, '''growing, reproducing, and responding to external stimuli.''' (Britannica)<br/> <br/> 3. Life is a quality that distinguishes matter that has biological processes, such as signaling and self-sustaining processes, from matter that does not, and is defined by the capacity for growth, reaction to stimuli, metabolism, energy transformation, and reproduction. (Wikipedia)<br/> <br/> 4. (Changhan's thought) Life is <span style="color:#c0392b;">'''a system that can try to make decisions (output information)'''</span> upon certain conditions (by processing input information).<br/> Life could be classified as two classes; biological life (e.g. animals, plants) and non-biological life (e.g. computer program) as noth can process input information and produce output information.</span><br/> <br/> === Information=== <span style="font-size:<br/20px;"> 1. what is conveyed or represented by a particular arrangement or sequence of things. (Oxford languages)<br/> <br/> 2.<br/> <br/> 3.<br/span> <br/> === Universe:=== <br/> <span style="font-size:20px;"> 1.<br/> <br/> 2.<br/> <br/> 3.<br/> <br/> Fractality of evolution, encapsulation, and information propagation?</span>