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Explosions in the Sky (mander.xyz)

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago (9 children)

Life is anything that moves, reproduces, senses, grows, respires, excretes and eats.

Consciousness is more mysterious and less well defined.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago (2 children)

What is "sensing" or "growing" or "respiring" or "excreting" or "eating"?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I would define those terms, but you would just ask me to define the terms I used to define them, wouldn't you? Eventually, language is known by other people without being defined in terms of language.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Not really, i left out the term reproduce because i think it has some reality. But others like sensing — does an atom changing the electron cloud due to an electric feild or nearby atom count as sensing because it senses the presence of nearby atoms or whatever?

Won't growing constitute of some large mass body collecting more mass due to its gravitation?

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