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WHERE DOES LIFE STOP? A simple living cell is made of organelles and biological molecules. Is the organelle alive? Is a biomolecule alive? Is a ribosome or a nucleus alive? How far down can you divide? View in LinkedIn

A BINARY COMPUTER VIRUS "is a virus that carries one part of a double payload. Two strains of the virus exist, A and B. Both strains are innocuous in isolation but when they meet, the payloads combine to produce a malicious function.” https://books.google.com/books?id=_VLmBwAAQBAJ&pg=PA47&lpg=PA47&dq=computer+virus+metabolism&source=bl&ots=VZ5Xit6TPg&sig=2EBk5kG-yFSqUID0C-MnUht1dPc&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwi51qLC35fLAhUBcj4KHQW-B9AQ6AEIDDAB View in LinkedIn

DUMB UNITS. “This book assumes that any brain, machine, or other thing that has a mind must be composed of smaller things that cannot think at all.” https://lnkd.in/dAkkAGX View in LinkedIn

HYBRID MINDS. “The evolutionary vestiges of animals that still remain inside our brains. We use machinery evolved from fish, amphibia, reptiles, and earlier mammals.” https://lnkd.in/dQzHT87 View in LinkedIn

INSCRUTABLE. “Our minds contain processes that enable us to solve problems we consider difficult. Intelligence is our name for whichever of those processes we don't yet understand.” https://lnkd.in/dYTNHMv View in LinkedIn

IMPERCEPTIBLE. “Evolution's time rate is so slow that we don't see it as intelligent, even though it finally produces wonderful things we ourselves cannot yet make.” https://lnkd.in/dYTNHMv View in LinkedIn

REDUCTIONISM. “The same applies to words like life and mind. It is foolish to use these words for describing the smallest components of living things because these words were invented to describe how larger assemblies interact.” https://lnkd.in/dA6xPFi View in LinkedIn

DEFINITIONAL ISSUES. “Our perspective assumes no sharp distinction between life and non-life, and does not equate life exclusively with cellular or organismal status.” https://lnkd.in/dVyX2pV View in LinkedIn

COLLABORATION. “Life arises when lineage-forming entities collaborate in metabolism.” https://lnkd.in/dVyX2pV View in LinkedIn

JOHN DUPRÉ “is the director of the ESRC Centre for Genomics in Society and professor of philosophy at the University of Exeter. Dupré was educated at the University of Oxford and the University of Cambridge and taught at Oxford, Stanford University and Birkbeck College of the University of London before moving to Exeter. Dupré's chief work area lies in philosophy of biology, philosophy of the social sciences, and general philosophy of science.” https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Dupr%C3%A9 View in LinkedIn