British physicist Stephen Hawking (remember, _A Brief History of Time_?) says a computer virus fits the definition of a living system even though it has no metabolism of its own, and instead uses the metabolism of a host computer for its parasitic existence. "I think computer viruses should count as life. I think it says something about human nature that the only form of life we have created so far is purely destructive. We've created life in our own image," says Hawking. -- St. Petersburg Times, Aug. 8, 1994, p. 8 Imagning the image of God... -------------------------------------------- 혹시라도 어쩌다가 아픔같은 것이 저며올 때는 그럴 땐 바다를 생각해 바다 ... ----- 김민기의 <봉우리> 중에서 ----------- J jhan@ucsd.edu