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To: Nadine Carroll who wrote (124251)7/9/2005 3:32:04 PM
From: LindyBill  Read Replies (1) of 794317
 
Wouldn't volcanic activity qualify as "a thermodynamic process that organizes energy"?

I said it was an operational definition of what life does. There may be non life processes that organize energy. The only one that comes to mind are crystals.

I was pointing out that we have not integrated Biology anywhere near the same amount that we have integrated Physics. And that the above definition is the best I have seen so far.

Photosynthesis is a process that plants use to organize energy. Self reproduction is a process by which life organizes energy.

I don't think volcanos "organize" anything. The word implies "to arrange in a desired pattern or structure." Volcanos don't do that.
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