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Originally Posted by Seaver
If Viruses count as life than every computer program has to count as well.
Viruses only do what the designer tells it to... computer programs only do what the designer/operator tells it to do. Viruses can be transferred from computer to computer, so can programs. Viruses can be designed to talk to each other, programs have been doing that for generations.
In short... this statement is false regardless of who said it.
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Well, your almost right. Viruses do something that not all computer programs do. They self-replicate and spread from computer to computer. There are non malicious programs that do this as well. This is what makes them similar to life, in my opinion.