meh, guess i wont get an answer

Not by the usual definition of "living", no.

I would first ask myself what the benefits of such an expanded definition of life are. "In some sense" gives me a tenuous relationship to just about anything. Will that be helpful in a meaningful way? If I consider a rock to be living in some sense, how will that change my perceptions of it?

Also, I think that broadening the definition of "living" to include all matter would render the word fairly meaningless (semantic bleaching) and so we would need to invent a new word to describe the things that we currently consider to be "alive".

And why is this in Quantum Theory?

On 10/24/2018 at 11:46 AM, Phi for All said:

 If I consider a rock to be living in some sense, how will that change my perceptions of it?

Well, depending on the rock, you might just end up taking it for Granite.

10 minutes ago, et pet said:

Well, depending on the rock, you might just end up taking it for Granite.

LOL!

On 10/25/2018 at 1:48 AM, Dankfinger said:

meh, guess i wont get an answer

Are all matter/anti matter living, in some sense?

Not at all, although scientifically speaking, at one time there was no life, then sometime later there was....So that is the prime evidence for the process of Abiogenesis, or the evolution of life from inert matter/anti-matter.

How does our OP define living? 

On 10/24/2018 at 10:48 AM, Strange said:

And why is this in Quantum Theory?

Deepak Chopra, similar peddlers of woo, and the countless many who fall victim to its siren call. 

7 minutes ago, iNow said:

How does our OP define living? 

Deepak Chopra, similar peddlers of woo, and the countless many who fall victim to its siren call. 

I'm now getting the Magazine Gaia nonsense infecting the Facebook page I sometimes comment on... 

13 hours ago, et pet said:

Well, depending on the rock, you might just end up taking it for Granite.

You may think I'm without compassion, but I have several quartz at mica mand. And massif amounts of evidence that suggests rock is non-living, despite what that awesome Who song says.

53 minutes ago, Phi for All said:

You may think I'm without compassion, but I have several quartz at mica mand. And massif amounts of evidence that suggests rock is non-living, despite what that awesome Who song says.

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   Si they's ain't uh Lot O pea pull that eye reel E. lye cuh

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Edited October 28, 20187 yr by et pet

On 24/10/2018 at 4:53 PM, Strange said:

Not by the usual definition of "living", no.

Yeah, right would have to make another definition for the things we consider living now then, like strange said.

 

On 24/10/2018 at 5:48 PM, Strange said:

And why is this in Quantum Theory?

Because I think dark matter flowing around in some state of "living" interconnected with all other matter, and yeah, seems pretty quantum to me.

I was pondering this question, just didn't realise it, coz my brain is like working in images and emotions, but the question was coz i was pondering this

 

1 hour ago, Dankfinger said:

I was pondering this question, just didn't realise it, coz my brain is like working in images and emotions, but the question was coz i was pondering this

 

Where exactly is all the antimatter? 

13 minutes ago, Moontanman said:

Where exactly is all the antimatter? 

I have an idea(intuition) Antimatter is key, in the question(s).

1 hour ago, Dankfinger said:

I have an idea(intuition) Antimatter is key, in the question(s).

Now your reasons for that would be interesting...