Jump to conclusions? I’m really not interested in the details of a hypothesis with the premise that a fusion reaction is a “life form.” My analogy of fire as a life form is just as valid.
If you say so, Barnacle. There's no sense trying to interest you in a fascinating hypothesis you have already determined is impossible, based on what you already know. Your mind is "made up," sight unseen.
Myself, I find it best to keep an open mind. If the hypothesis is experimentally falsified, well, there's the end of it. The forthcoming Grandpierre article deals with proposed experimental tests. I'm content to let the astrophysicists do the science, and wait to see what they come up with.
From what I understand, Dr. Grandpierre is not dealing in analogy here. He means it when he says the Sun may be a living system -- not just a vast fusion reactor, not just "a luminous ball of gas." He argues that new conceptual research, new theoretical approaches are needed in our understanding of solar dynamics that have become feasible with the advent of helioseismology, space-based neutrino detectors and other new technical tools, plus theoretical work that has been done in information science, etc.
Natch, the jury's still out; but I will be following the science as it evolves, and see what develops.