Vision and Evolution (A Critique of Dawkins)

[Anomalocaris]

"Homeostasis" is a big and technical sounding word whose specialized meaning really adds nothing to the statement above.   Replace the word "homeostasis" with the word "alive" would convey all the meaning.   But using the word "homeostasis" certainly does make the statement sound more profound and erudite without adding anything at all to its pedestrian information content.

Homeostasis shouldn't be a big and technical word to anyone responding on this thread.

Exactly.   People who respond here knows its specific meaning and realizes the presence of the word here is not for precision but for pretense and pomposity.

Being alive makes it clear the processes of the organism is sufficiently adaptable to the environment such that the organism isn't dead.   Homeostasis is a state that organisms never truly sustains but struggles to avoid excessive excursion.