If we can call normal viruses life, they being just RNA covered with protein, no internal workings, and certainly no consciousness, then I think we ought to call computer viruses life as well.
They multiply, the can evolve, they defend themselves. What more does one need? Sure, they’re not biological, but why is that important to the concept of life?
If people say that a computer virus is ‘just’ a file, one can perhaps make the argument that a biological virus is ‘just’ a strand of RNA covered with a coat of protein.
For those who say that it cannot feel, neither can a biological virus. And I’m sure that bacteria cannot ‘feel’ either.
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no i dion’t think so
Personal Supercomputer
i didnt know that we called viruses alive
Computer Brain Interface
No a computer virus is a file that plants it’s self in your hard drive.
Mobile Computing Technology
viruses are not alive
so comp viruses certainly aren’t
Mobile Computer Magazine
They are not . They have no independent will or thought. They can only do as much as there program allows
biological computer
No a computer virus is not a life form. I totally agree with your anology but computer viruses so not really defend themself and they do not truly multiply in the way a lifeform would. Computer viruses do not evolve on their own they need the programmer/writer to code the evolution into the virus therefor they are not alive they are just doing what they were programmed to do
Head Computers
no
Biological Computers
No it isn’t. If you were expecting a computer virus to be a life form, then it wouldn’t infect the computer, it would infect us. However, a computer virus is a virtual bug.
Mobile Computing Applications
maybe in the future they would be considered as artificial lifeforms
Mobile Computing Technology
No as it has no form and it does not feed or feel.
Mobile Computing Technology
I think you got stuck in “The Matrix”.
Biological Computers
Your not thinking straight.
Computer Human Interface
I know this may be a little OT, but I have been reading the various posts about viruses infecting computers in this forum for a while now. The more I read, the more I can’t help getting the feeling we humans have, or are on the cusp of creating a form of life.
I have included a few articles I found searching google,
»www.brunel.ac.uk/depts/AI/alife/al-virus.htm
»www.hkbu.edu.hk/~ppp/HKPC/Comput···uses.htm
»www.panspermia.org/whatis2.htm
Computer Human Interface
Of cause not .virus is tiny small exe files.
Computer Speech Technology
There’s questions in the medical field, as well as among philosophers, about whether viruses count as a life form. And even if computer viruses were to be considered a life form, I doubt they would be given a status above biological viruses or other parasites.
But your question is interesting on several levels. Eventually, computer technology will be advanced enough that it wil be almost indistinguishable from life forms. In fact, there has been research into making computers that use RNA itself.
Mobile Computing Applications
Virus is a living being or not is still in debate.
If your aspect is right answer me,
The mannequins deliver babies, are they alive?
Mobile Computing Technology
viruses are not alive, bacteries are but not viruses.
viruses can’t live unless they are in someones body. they have to enter someones body(cell) then they can expand and be more and more. but not bacteries.
Computer Brain Interface
i dont think so… i dont even think that real viruses are considered to be alive. they are not composed of cells… which are the building blocks of life.