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What Is Life? (2019)

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Re: What Is Life? (2019)

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Post by plutonorm »

A virus is a meta lifeform. It is life that operates given the existence of metabolising organisms. Life operates directly over the physical matter in the universe, a virus just operates a step above this.

Re: What Is Life? (2019)

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Post by notsureaboutpg »

ssijak wrote: post #2

A blip between 2 ethernal nothingness.

I've recently been thinking that as much as we say this to ourselves, we don't actually believe it.

If this were really true, why do so many people live such normal by-the-books lives? If there's nothing after you die, why are people scared to do dangerous things? Why do they work their whole lives and enjoy so little of it?

People say this is your only life so they are afraid to lose it but then why wouldn't you do all sorts of taboo things in your only life, especially if you know it will end soon, think terminal illnesses etc.

Most people claim to believe that there's nothing after life but most people also live like there is clearly some evaluation of life that makes a respectable life worth living. Weird to think about it like that.

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Post by apocalypstyx »

plutonorm wrote: post #3
ssijak wrote: post #2

A blip between 2 ethernal nothingness.

The antidote you are looking for is panpsychism.

This doesn't fundamentally alter ssijak's point. Even applied to the whole of existence, that existence takes place between points of temporal indeterminacy. Even if this could be viewed as lengthening the "blip" it does so in the context that the given length of time between temporal indeterminacies is immaterial due to the nature of such indeterminacies and thus still remains, in effect, "blip"-like.
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