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It has its minuses and pluses, but it seems to be doing its job.

It's unlikely to be a sort of smoking gun event, right?

It's not going to be, hey, I found this.

I don't think so.

Unless you find an elephant on some exoplanet, then I can say, yeah, there's life here.

It doesn't need to move, right?

I mean, like look at plants.

I mean, they grow, but there are plants that can be also pretty dormant.

And arguably, they do everything that is one of my...

favorite professors once said that the plant does everything that a giraffe does without moving.

So movement is not necessarily.

Yes.

I would say that it's hard to quantify this or even measure it, but life is definitely chemistry finding solutions, right?

So it is chemistry exploring itself

and maintaining this exploration for billions of years.

If that chemistry or the solutions that it embarks upon are maintained in a form of memory.

So you don't just need to have the exploring chemical space, but you need to also maintain a memory of some of those

solutions for over long periods of time.

So that's the memory component makes it more living to me.

Because chemistry can always sample, right?