a bold challenge to the orthodox definition of life

[scruffy]

What information is that? ... looks to me like it needs atoms to assemble ...

What if there was no information, would the atoms still assemble? ... does a carbon atom need information to oxidize ... or does she oxidize whether there's information or not ...

Another thing these complex molecules need is energy, or ATP ... that's not true for rocks, which is silicon and aluminum in his and her fully oxidized states, or lowest energy level ... what we find in almost every molecule within cellular life is reduced carbon peppered with bare nakked protons using solar energy through photosynthesis ...

Do vacuums contain information? ...

Sigh.

You people....

Not only does the vacuum contain information, but how much of it you see depends on how fast you're traveling.

Information is entropy, and entropy is relative.

"Number of microstates" completely loses its meaning at some point.