"Life is the Universe developing a memory of itself". -Lee Cronin. Absolute banger of a statement.,(reply>), Actually it was complete hand waving BS.<br>Abiogenic Life criteria includes:<br>1) Isolated homeostatic milieu selectively excluding environmental constituents.<br>2) mechanism for effective self replication<br>3) internal metabolic pathway to create and maintain 1 &amp; 2,(reply>), I thought this sounded profound, but it didn't really sound that insightful?<br><br>I would say life is just an organism that can adapt to change, be that through changing itself or through mutations in replicating itself / reproducing.<br><br>Maybe the next stage of life does not evolve through random mutation i.e. natural selection, but through self engineering i.e. editing one's self and one's genes etc.,(reply>), doesn't imply conscience though,(reply>), it is poetic, but aren't all the residual footprints of the big bang a memory card, too ?