Re: Is a computer virus alive?
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biological virus, which I assume everyone will agree is alive?
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This also isnt true.
Viruses have this sort of nebulous definition that fits in between the living and the non-living worlds.
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I just did some searching, and it appears that many scientists do in fact resist classifying biological viruses as life forms. Here is what I am using as a definition of life:
A being is alive if it can (1) reproduce, (2) consume energy, and (3) stop consuming energy(i.e., die). I was under the impression that this was a generally accepted definition of life. Using this definition, both a computer virus and a biological virus seem to qualify. Is my definition somehow lacking?
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