RE: Agnostic Skepticism- My Views
November 17, 2016 at 5:05 am
(This post was last modified: November 17, 2016 at 5:09 am by The Grand Nudger.)
(November 14, 2016 at 8:05 pm)bennyboy Wrote: Would you then say the HUMAN isn't alive, it is just the neurons inside him which are alive? No, that doesn't work, either, because the neurons themselves are 99.9999999% empty space, too. So, for that matter, are all the atoms in the neurons.You know that the reason it "doesn't work" has to do with your atrocious formulation and not anything to do with how we determine what is and what is not alive, where the boundaries of that living thing lie, and at what point we exit those boundaries and move into the non-living subsrate in which it exists...right? None of it has -anything- to do with your fascination of spatial appropriation at relative scales.
Quote:It's kind of paradoxical, really-- there's nothing that humans are made up of that can knowingly be said to be life/alive, and yet here we are-- living out our days with intent, and sense of purpose, and a rich subjective experience of our actions and their consequences.I'm made up of quite a bit that can be said to be life.......my simplest building block is a cell, the basic unit for all known living organisms. Each one is alive.
The idea that it would be sensible to call the universe a living thing, because it has living things in it, makes about as much sense as calling a jar a living thing for being chock full of fireflies.
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