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<p class="gmail-p1"><span style="line-height:1.5">Accepting Pedro’s proclivity to associate information with life, we can agree that information makes a difference to living systems</span><br><span class="gmail-s1"></span></p>
<p class="gmail-p1"><span style="line-height:1.5">Then, life is characterized by e.g.:</span><br><span class="gmail-s1"></span></p>
<p class="gmail-p1"><span style="line-height:1.5">     multiple reactivities </span><br><span class="gmail-s1"></span></p><p class="gmail-p2"><span class="gmail-s1" style="line-height:1.5">    </span><span style="line-height:1.5"> cleaving to certain conditions that the system is adjacent (adapted) to: </span></p><p class="gmail-p1"><span class="gmail-s1"></span></p>
<p class="gmail-p2"><span class="gmail-s1">     attractions and refusals</span></p>
<p class="gmail-p1"><span class="gmail-s1">    </span><span style="line-height:1.5"> Stigmergy</span></p>
<p class="gmail-p1"><span style="line-height:1.5">     Perpetuation in other material manifestations (e.g.,biological reproduction)</span><br><span class="gmail-s1"></span></p>
<p class="gmail-p1"><span style="line-height:1.5">     Build-up via organized actions / entropy production</span><br><span class="gmail-s1"></span></p>
<p class="gmail-p1"><span class="gmail-s1" style="line-height:1.5">But most of these are found in simpler form in abiotic dissipative structures as well. Life </span><span style="line-height:1.5">characterizes very complicated and complex dissipative structures</span><br><span class="gmail-s1"></span></p>
<p class="gmail-p1"><span style="line-height:1.5">So, information must make a difference to the promotion of any dissipative structure. (Here we arrive in physics!)</span><br><span class="gmail-s1"></span></p><p class="gmail-p1"><span style="line-height:1.5">STAN</span></p></div></div>