RESHARED POST FROM OLAV SMØRHOLM

Read closely, because this is a brilliant application of the #attentioneconomy . This is an example of how we will start preferring attention-based models to other sorts of models and explanations for deciding difficult problems. Wondeful!

The de?nitions [of life, IF] are more than often in con?ict with one another. Undeniably, however, most of them do have a point, one or another or several, and common sense suggests that, probably, one could arrive to a consensus, if only the authors, some two centuries apart from one another, could be brought together. One thing, however, can be done – sort of voting in absentia – asking which terms in the de?nitions are the most frequent and, thus, perhaps, re?ecting the most important points shared by many. Such analysis is offered below, revealing those most frequent terms that may be used for tentative formulation of the consensus.

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Brilliant!

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