I know I'm a "living system" because
I am animated. I think that is what distinguishes living from non living; an awareness. I class we discussed the meaning of living as a system that is constantly becoming. Our cells, our thoughts, are constantly becoming, keeping us who/as we are. Our bodies recognize non self cells as intruders and wage a defense, thus keeping us 'becoming'.
Another way to phrase that might be living beings are 'composing', constantly, until we die and thus de-compose. At that point we are no longer continuing to become with animation, although we are still becoming in the sense that we are returning to the earth, something different.
From this definition, it appears that the earth is 'becoming', is animated in some sense...
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