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Braininvat » May 13th, 2017, 2:18 am wrote:http://www.sciencechatforum.com/viewtopic.php?nomobile=1&f=37&t=6722
A fairly extensive SCF discussion on this question. I haven't reread it, so can't totally vouch for its usefulness, but perhaps worth a look?
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DragonFly » May 13th, 2017, 10:06 pm wrote:Life is of metabolism in a system not in equilibrium.
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Alan McDougall » 14 May 2017 02:52 am wrote:DragonFly » May 13th, 2017, 10:06 pm wrote:Life is of metabolism in a system not in equilibrium.
We exist as living beings on a knife edge of conditions and if just one of them goes out of wack we die.
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Alan McDougall » 14 May 2017 11:38 am wrote:A candle or even a crystal could be taken as a form of life?
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I thought I would use my 'please select your preferred answer on this one', so here goes.Alan McDougall » Sat May 13, 2017 8:04 pm wrote:The "Cambrian Explosion" refers to the sudden appearance in the fossil record of complex animals with mineralized skeletal remains.
It may represent the most important evolutionary event in the history of life on Earth.
The Cambrian explosion makes one suggest that the theory of evolution is not 100% correct?
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Alan McDougall » May 13th, 2017, 4:02 am wrote:What is life?
Give your best short definition of what life really is below.
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...life is a verb. It is not a property that one ascribes to structures per se, but rather to the activity of a structure. Once one makes this simple paradigm shift in thinking, many other apparently mysterious aspects of “matter in the living state” become understandable.
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Sivad » July 14th, 2017, 8:05 pm wrote:Life is a chemical process that took on a life of its own.
Sivad » July 14th, 2017, 8:19 pm wrote:...life is a verb. It is not a property that one ascribes to structures per se, but rather to the activity of a structure. Once one makes this simple paradigm shift in thinking, many other apparently mysterious aspects of “matter in the living state” become understandable.
Life is a Process, Not a Thing
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Braininvat » July 19th, 2017, 8:02 am wrote:That possibility of different substrates is what Hilary Putnam and other philosophers referred to as "multiple realizability." It is central to the philosophic position, popular with many scientists, called functionalism.
https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/functionalism/
The causal relationships between parts of the system are what matter, not the underlying material.
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