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What are life, information, and the universe? (as information processing objects)
Life
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)
2. Life is defined as any system capable of performing functions such as eating, metabolizing, excreting, breathing, moving, growing, reproducing, and responding to external stimuli. (Britannica)
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)
4. (Changhan's thought) Life is a system that can try to make decisions (output information) upon certain conditions (by processing input information).
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.
Information
1. what is conveyed or represented by a particular arrangement or sequence of things (Oxford languages)
2. Information is an abstract concept that refers to that which has the power to inform. (Wikipedia)
3. facts about a situation, person, event, etc. (Cambridge dictionary)
4. (Changhan's thought) Information is any form of digits or letters which one can process to make decisions.
(Figure. Life processes and produce information)
Universe
1. all existing matter and space considered as a whole; the cosmos (Oxford languages)
2. a particular sphere of activity, interest, or experience (Oxford languages)
3. The universe is everything. It includes all of space, and all the matter and energy that space contains. It even includes time itself and, of course, it includes you. (NASA)
4. The universe is literally everything, the sum of all existence. (by Paul Sutter, a research professor in astrophysics at SUNY Stony Brook University and the Flatiron Institute in New York City)
5. (Changhan's thought) The universe is a set of many lives and much information.
(Figure. Universe is a set of many lives and much information.)
Fractality of evolution, encapsulation, and information propagation?