What is “sensing” or “growing” or “respiring” or “excreting” or “eating”?
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JackGreenEarth@lemm.ee 1 month ago
Life is anything that moves, reproduces, senses, grows, respires, excretes and eats.
Consciousness is more mysterious and less well defined.
mexicancartel@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 month ago
JackGreenEarth@lemm.ee 1 month ago
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.
mexicancartel@lemmy.dbzer0.com 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?
MrSoup@lemmy.zip 1 month ago
Yes, but how do living things come into existence? What makes a cell alive?
fossilesque@mander.xyz 1 month ago
Jiggling. It’s about wiggling and jiggling.
SurfinBird@lemmy.ca 1 month ago
“Jiggle physics is the real science. Everything else is stamp collecting.” - Einstein maybe
Rolando@lemmy.world 1 month ago
“What is a jiggleo?
A dead body
Well, he ain’t really dead, but he ain’t like
Anybody that you’ve ever met before
He’ll eat monopoly and shit out connect four”
-ICP
dessimbelackis@lemmy.world 1 month ago
“And so people come to sorts of agreements about, uh, how much of a wiggle is a wiggle; that is to say a thing. One wiggle, you can always reduce any one wiggle into sub-wiggles. Or see it as a subordinate wiggle in a bigger wiggle. But there’s no real fixed rule about it”
fossilesque@mander.xyz 1 month ago
Does a wave wiggle or jiggle?