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Ideas for 'Parmenides', 'Elbow Room: varieties of free will' and 'Unpublished Notebooks 1881-82'

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27. Natural Reality / G. Biology / 2. Life
Life is forces conjoined by nutrition, to produce resistance, arrangement and value [Nietzsche]
     Full Idea: A multiplicity of forces, conjoined through a common nutritive process, is what we call 'life'. All so-called feeling, representing, thinking is part of this nutritive process to enable resistance to other forces, and arrangement, and an evaluation.
     From: Friedrich Nietzsche (Unpublished Notebooks 1881-82 [1882], 24[14])
     A reaction: [compressed at the end] Since no one else seems able to define life, this is quite a good attempt. Life is certainly a sort of unification of active energies, which than share goals.