115: What is Life?
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Basically, yes. But I wouldn't say that today's computers are nearly as alive as biological organisms.
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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?
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I don't see the ambiguity in reproduction here.
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8'D
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No, it's buuuuushit!
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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?
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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.
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Life is bullshit
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Reading
What is Life? by Erwin Schrodinger (1944)
What is Life? by Ed Regis (2008)
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