So what it sounds like you're saying is, can we say that computers are alive because they are running and serve a function? Computers have operations does that mean they are alive or no?
When you said 'Life is a sort of object', that made me think that we can exist, we can be biologically alive, but what makes us humans have Life? So I can picture life as a sort of abstract concept, that grows with time and experience, something we aquire throughout our biological life. Because a living human does is not necessarliy alive, or does not necessary have life. Does that make sense?
OK, reproduction was again the wrong word yet again proving what I said in my language video about these kind of questions. I'm pushed for time so I haven't got time to check this but what about the ability of the organism to perpetuate itself or even just it's constituent parts?
So what it sounds like you're saying is, can we say that computers are alive because they are running and serve a function? Computers have operations does that mean they are alive or no?
somechick73 2 years ago
Basically, yes. But I wouldn't say that today's computers are nearly as alive as biological organisms.
Mozza314 2 years ago
wow, I just thought about something.
When you said 'Life is a sort of object', that made me think that we can exist, we can be biologically alive, but what makes us humans have Life? So I can picture life as a sort of abstract concept, that grows with time and experience, something we aquire throughout our biological life. Because a living human does is not necessarliy alive, or does not necessary have life. Does that make sense?
Sofia
5madheathens 2 years ago
OK, reproduction was again the wrong word yet again proving what I said in my language video about these kind of questions. I'm pushed for time so I haven't got time to check this but what about the ability of the organism to perpetuate itself or even just it's constituent parts?
Orygyn 2 years ago
I don't see the ambiguity in reproduction here.
Mozza314 2 years ago
I agree with you about reproduction; there are plenty of things which have lived and died without ever even having had the ability to reproduce.
CousinoMacul 2 years ago
Life is bullshit
abba149 2 years ago
No, it's buuuuushit!
TheVisionOfProgress 2 years ago 2
8'D
abba149 2 years ago
Reading
What is Life? by Erwin Schrodinger (1944)
What is Life? by Ed Regis (2008)
Mjhavok 2 years ago