It's an interesting article, though. I'm not inclined to call it life, but I suffer from carbon-bias. I think we'd have to know more about these phenomena and do a little more debating on what life really is before we decide.
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It's alive. If you've got imperfect replicators and limited resources, you'll get evolution, and that gets you much more copmlicated structures entirely for free, and that gets you unambiguous life. Done.
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With the caveat that extra-terrestrial it ain't, this is all computer simulation, apparently.
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The simple version we got in biology was something had to consume, respond to stimulus, excrete waste, and reproduce. I suppose the dust could be said to consume the electricity, but I'd like to see it respond to stimulus with more oomph than a rock.
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