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Single Idea 20658
[filed under theme 27. Natural Reality / G. Biology / 2. Life
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Full Idea
In passing information, physical changes take place, and information is thus physical. On this account, the act of living can be seen as replicating and preserving the information that a living body is comprised of.
Gist of Idea
Information is physical, and living can be seen as replicating and preserving information
Source
Peter Watson (Convergence [2016], 17 'Dreams')
Book Ref
Watson,Peter: 'Convergence' [Simon and Schuster 2016], p.400
A Reaction
[He emphasises 'the act' of living, rather than a life]
The
32 ideas
from Peter Watson
20649
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The interference of light through two slits confirmed that it is waves
[Watson]
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20650
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The Uncertainty Principle implies that cause and effect can't be measured
[Watson]
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20651
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The shape of molecules is important, as well as the atoms and their bonds
[Watson]
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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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20654
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Only four particles are needed for matter: up and down quark, electron, electron-neutrino
[Watson]
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20655
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Humans have been hunter-gatherers for 99.5% of their existence
[Watson]
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20656
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Traditional ideas of the mind were weakened in the 1950s by mind-influencing drugs
[Watson]
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20657
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There are 23 core brain functions, with known circuit, transmitters, genes and behaviour
[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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20661
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Electrons rotate in hyrogen atoms 10^13 times per second
[Watson]
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20647
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Quantum theory explains why nature is made up of units, such as elements
[Watson]
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7461
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The three key ideas are the soul, Europe, and the experiment
[Watson]
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7462
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DNA mutation suggests humans and chimpanzees diverged 6.6 million years ago
[Watson]
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7463
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The three basic ingredients of religion are: the soul, seers or priests, and ritual
[Watson]
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7464
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The big idea: imitation, the soul, experiments, God, heliocentric universe, evolution?
[Watson]
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7465
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Babylonian thinking used analogy, rather than deduction or induction
[Watson]
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7466
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Mesopotamian numbers applied to specific things, and then became abstract
[Watson]
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7470
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During the rise of civilizations, the main gods changed from female to male
[Watson]
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7468
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In ancient Athens the souls of the dead are received by the 'upper air'
[Watson]
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7474
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Hinduism has no founder, or prophet, or creed, or ecclesiastical structure
[Watson]
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7475
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Confucius revered the spiritual world, but not the supernatural, or a personal god, or the afterlife
[Watson]
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7476
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Taoism aims at freedom from the world, the body, the mind, and nature
[Watson]
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7471
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The Gathas (hymns) of Zoroastrianism date from about 1000 BCE
[Watson]
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7473
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Zoroaster conceived the afterlife, judgement, heaven and hell, and the devil
[Watson]
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7477
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Modern democracy is actually elective oligarchy
[Watson]
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7478
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Greek philosophers invented the concept of 'nature' as their special subject
[Watson]
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7479
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Modern Judaism became stabilised in 200 CE
[Watson]
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7481
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The Israelites may have asserted the uniqueness of Yahweh to justify land claims
[Watson]
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7480
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Monotheism was a uniquely Israelite creation within the Middle East
[Watson]
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7483
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Paul's early writings mention few striking episodes from Jesus' life
[Watson]
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7484
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Jesus never intended to start a new religion
[Watson]
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7490
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Because of Darwin, wisdom as a definite attainable state has faded
[Watson]
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