James Lovelock on "life"
 

Lovelock's definition of life: "Life is that function which optimizes the conditions for its existence"
 
Duden dismisses this as a "tautology"

> from Barbara Duden's Disembodying Women: Perspectives on Pregnancy and the Unborn (1993)

> tagged with #biology

> created January 24, 2026 at 8:30:59 AM


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