| Re: What is life?
boagie, i tend to look on life more on the point of view of the whole, I agree that in biology the cycle of prey and the hunter, of the eater and the food is inescapable, that in order to live living things must "eat" on other life. but we must also consider that life comes from non-life at least on evolutionary terms. To view a dogs eat dogs philosophical view of reality is unthinkable for me. When there are other ideas of love, truth and beauty more sublime than "survival of the fittest". It seems to me a very narrow view of the "world of beings" Life for me must be view in the ambit of every being, life and non-life, minerals, vegetables, animals, man, and in the possibility of other rational beings, may it be spiritual ones (angels, gods, demons whatever) or alien life forms.
As you say, vegetables depend on dead organism, exactly my point. organism that once has life are non-living things, just chemical composition that can easily be replicated in a lab.
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