(November 17, 2016 at 5:05 am)Rhythm Wrote: 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.And I qualified that, didn't I? I asked in what sense an individual universe, with nothing to interact with, could be called 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.
Anyway, as usual this all comes down to semantics. How do you define life? Sentience? The ability to interact? Something which consumes part of its environment and reforms it? The universe couldn't do the latter, by definition. It could be sentient, I don't know, and I'm not sure even mind qualifies something to be called alive-- certainly by your definitions of mind, it wouldn't. But nobody says God has to be alive-- I'd say a massive sentience would for sure be callable by the word "God."
But your semantics are too anthropocentric. Are you solid, or are you empty space?
