What is life?

 

Is it that which reproduces? That which converts energy? That which moves. Why is a tree life, but a rock not?

 

Dying to hear the different definitions.

 

Max

Search the forums - this comes up a lot.

Defining draws too many fines lines. Especialy in this sort of topic.

life??hmmm?

life is made up of all the five elements.when these five elements combined they formed mother earth.on mother earth from the water emerges life .and father timepermits evolution to continue.

no no no, I`m fairly sure it`s closer to something like:

 

Movement

Respiration

Sensitivity

Nutrients (requiring)

Excretion

Reproduction

and Growth

 

as you can see it clearly has 7 elements

no no no' date=' I`m fairly sure it`s closer to something like:

 

Movement

Respiration

Sensitivity

Nutrients (requiring)

Excretion

Reproduction

and Growth

 

as you can see it clearly has 7 elements [/quote']

 

also Cognition as specifyed by the Santiago Theory

Cognition is difficult in single celled life like algae, dontcha think?

Cognition is difficult in single celled life like algae, dontcha think?

 

only if limiting the term to humanity.

 

like Maturana said, a baterium while does not have cognition as you and i know it, but it can sense if there's acid nearby and swim away from or food and swim to, etc.

 

basically, the idea is to think outside the box.

 

here's a brief excerpt

 

http://www.geocities.com/combusem/CAPRA4.HTM

also Cognition as specifyed by the Santiago Theory

well even if we did accept cognitive behaviour (and I don`t) that would make it 8 points, and certainly not 5 as stated

only if limiting the term to humanity.

 

like Maturana said' date=' a baterium while does not have cognition as you and i know it, but it can sense if there's acid nearby and swim away from or food and swim to, etc.[/url']

 

And plants bend towards light, but that's due to the action of photophobic growth hormones being more active on the shaded side of the stem. To use the term 'cognition' to explain the heliotropic properties of a plant would be inappropriate. There is a difference between 'sensitivity' to something and 'sensing' it.

yep, i know.

 

but i didn't say you got to buy what's in the Santiago theory, i merely threw it down on the table

I think life from a scientific point of view is the opposite of death, so deifne death ivert it and budda bing you have the meaning of life

Thats more of a philosophical way of thinking. Fair enough the opposite of death is life but you have to be able to define life before hand to understand what death isn't.

Actually i thought death was easier to define than life....as for the philosophical version death is heaven/hell....etc

I see death as the cease of all response from an organism or the loss of the MRSGREN points YT had

gonna go get a dictionary

yt2095

 

how canit be that movement is part of life.

 

when plants dont move,and they have life.

yt2095

 

how canit be that movement is part of life.

 

when plants dont move' date='and they have life.[/quote']

LOL, plants don`t move!? YOU ARE kidding me right!?