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Single Idea 17585
[filed under theme 27. Natural Reality / G. Biology / 2. Life
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Full Idea
Individual human lives are infected with vagueness at both ends. ...But could there be a 'borderline life'?
Gist of Idea
Life is vague at both ends, but could it be totally vague?
Source
Peter van Inwagen (Material Beings [1990], 18)
Book Ref
Inwagen,Peter van: 'Material Beings' [Cornell 1995], p.238
A Reaction
Van Inwagen says (p.239) that there may be wholly vague lives, though it would suit his case better if there were not.
The
21 ideas
with the same theme
[what distinguishes life, and its value]:
24063
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What is born has growth, a prime, and a withering away
[Aristotle]
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23302
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Plants have far less life than animals, but more life than other corporeal entities
[Aristotle]
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7280
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As all life is one, what need is there for words?
[Zhuangzi (Chuang Tzu)]
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5043
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To regard animals as mere machines may be possible, but seems improbable
[Leibniz]
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24122
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Life is forces conjoined by nutrition, to produce resistance, arrangement and value
[Nietzsche]
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4877
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Maybe plants are very slow (and sentient) animals, overlooked because we are faster?
[Dennett]
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17567
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A flame is like a life, but not nearly so well individuated
[Inwagen]
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17568
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A tumour may spread a sort of life, but it is not a life, or an organism
[Inwagen]
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17569
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Unlike waves, lives are 'jealous'; it is almost impossible for them to overlap
[Inwagen]
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17570
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The chemical reactions in a human life involve about sixteen elements
[Inwagen]
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17576
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If God were to 'reassemble' my atoms of ten years ago, the result would certainly not be me
[Inwagen]
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17580
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One's mental and other life is centred on the brain, unlike any other part of the body
[Inwagen]
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17581
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Being part of an organism's life is a matter of degree, and vague
[Inwagen]
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17584
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Some events are only borderline cases of lives
[Inwagen]
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17586
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At the lower level, life trails off into mere molecular interaction
[Inwagen]
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17585
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Life is vague at both ends, but could it be totally vague?
[Inwagen]
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9324
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From the teleopragmatic perspective, life is largely an informational process
[Gulick]
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7516
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In 1828, the stuff of life was shown to be ordinary chemistry, not a magic gel
[Pinker]
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20652
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In 1828 the animal substance urea was manufactured from inorganic ingredients
[Watson]
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20658
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Information is physical, and living can be seen as replicating and preserving information
[Watson]
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6126
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Life is Movement, Respiration, Sensation, Nutrition, Excretion, Reproduction, Growth (MRS NERG)
[PG]
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