From the beginnin’ to end, losers lose, winners win
Professor Trifonov analyzes the vocabulary of 123 existing definitions of life in order to provide a possible path for finding a possible minimal agreement among scientists. To this purpose, he compares from a linguistic point of view the definitions and ranks the terms used therein according to their frequency. (…)
The outcome of this analysis is a definition of life as “self-reproduction with variations.” (…)
Is “self-reproduction with changes” a good definition? Can this definition actually provide a minimal basis of consensus?
