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Attempts to define life should focus on the transition from molecules to cells and the “closure” aspects of this event. Rather than classifying existing objects into living and non-living entities I believe the challenge is to understand how the transition from non-life to life can take place, that is, the how the closure in Jagers op Akkerhuis’s hierarchical classification of operators, comes about.
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van Straalen, N.M. The Issue of “Closure” in Jagers op Akkerhuis’s Operator Theory. Found Sci 16, 319–321 (2011). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10699-010-9207-6
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