[balrog666]

I am all agog! What is "the quantum basis of systems living or non-living"?

"When I use a word," Humpty Dumpty said in rather a scornful tone. "It means just what I choose it to mean - neither more or less."

[b_sharp]

I hope she realizes that at the quantum level there is no difference between the living and the non-living. Even if they are brain eaters. :)

Even though there is no distinct dividing line between what is considered alive and what is not when you get to the point of viruses, prions and the discussion of when life starts at abiogenesis, many feel that there is a mystic 'something' that invests the living with properties not seen in the non living. (the soul?)

This is probably why most have a difficult time understanding how life can come from non-life at the time of abiogenesis. This is also why creationists bring up the impossibility of life from non-life as determined by Pasteur even though the two systems are not related in any way.