linkedin post 2021-09-17 04:32:07

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ALTERNATIVE COLD FUSION. “An alternative to the preceding scenario, we consider the possible production of huge amount of Energy through the formation of highly populated medium (Plasma), composed of electrons and positrons, injected via electron and positron guns into palladium sheets.” https://lnkd.in/df-X8h2E View in LinkedIn
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linkedin post 2021-09-18 04:59:43

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TRADITIONAL CUT OFFS. “Some have localized the threshold of life” at the level of self-replicating informational polymers, catalytic networks, metabolism, thermodynamic properties, autopoiesis, membrane formation, or the level of entities in some type of hierarchy.” https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11229-019-02356-w View in LinkedIn
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linkedin post 2021-09-16 04:21:42

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DIGITAL TICKETS on 2nd October at 3-4 pm, at the Petersfield Museum, Hampshire UK. Talk by my old friend, naturalist, The Times newspaper nature columnist, and published butterfly author with four books under his belt, Mathew Oates, titled ‘The ever encouraging friend' - Discovering WH Hudson.’ Worth an hour, for certain. https://lnkd.in/dCNnzynM View in LinkedIn
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linkedin post 2021-09-19 04:32:57

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THE HARD TO CLASSIFY. “From spontaneously self-reorganizing crystals to mega-viruses to drastically reduced micro-endosymbionts, all these microscopic entities that we mentioned in the introduction constitute a set of entities that are hard to categorize as either truly living or truly non-living.” https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11229-019-02356-w View in LinkedIn
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linkedin post 2021-09-19 04:31:57

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DEFINITION OF LIFE. “However the real difficulty lays elsewhere: in the surprising diversity of borderline cases—giant viruses, sterile organisms, extreme microsymbionts, etc.—and disputes that follow their categorization as alive or not.” https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11229-019-02356-w View in LinkedIn
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linkedin post 2021-09-19 04:31:16

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DEGREES OF LIFELESSNESS. “Building on these dimensions-related differences, we also computed a single value of overall lifeness for each more-or-less-alive entity, thereby providing an empirically-founded quantification of degrees of lifeness.” https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11229-019-02356-w View in LinkedIn
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linkedin post 2021-09-19 04:30:06

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PROPERTY CLUSTERS. “They also show how different degrees of overall lifeness can be achieved in different ways. This multidimensional way of mapping borderline entities exemplifies the need of reformulating questions of the type “Is X alive?” into questions of the type “What is the lifeness of X?”. https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11229-019-02356-w View in LinkedIn
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