Francois Labreque wrote:

> The best definition of life I've seen so far is "something that can
> cause a local decrease in entropy".  If I remember correctly, according
> to this definition, virii would be alive, but prions (mad cow's disease)
> wouldn't.

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It's off to m-w.com for me again...

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