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Single Idea 9324
[filed under theme 27. Natural Reality / G. Biology / 2. Life
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Full Idea
From the teleopragmatic perspective, life itself is largely an informational process.
Clarification
'Teleopragmatic' perspectives focus on purposes and results
Gist of Idea
From the teleopragmatic perspective, life is largely an informational process
Source
Robert van Gulick (Mirror Mirror - Is That All? [2006])
Book Ref
'Self-Representational Approaches to Consciousness', ed/tr. Kriegel,U /Williford,K [MIT 2006], p.18
A Reaction
From the cynical perspective a human is just 'blood and foul smell in a bag', but that may not give you whole story. The point here is that the informational view will cover both the genetic and the mental levels of human life. True but unilluminating?
The
21 ideas
with the same theme
[what distinguishes life, and its value]:
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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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