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How would you define life?

Post 181

IctoanAWEWawi

smiley - laugh Him and Anita Dobson are about all we need!


How would you define life?

Post 182

Researcher 556780



Out of all the postings on here, I still like this one as a definition -

Life = Existing environment or reality - nature.

smiley - earth


How would you define life?

Post 183

Ste

What does it mean though?

Stesmiley - mod


How would you define life?

Post 184

Researcher 556780



Well, to me, my personal view, it includes everything.....life on earth, the earth and stuff around it that helps support it. Its a very VERY broad view smiley - winkeye Let me try again...errr....*shuffle, cough*...smiley - blush

....I look upon nature as a material world containing forces and processes. Nature to me is an existing system of things, the world of matter, the creation, the universe. I define that nature as life. Did that make sense to you?

I'm afraid I'm not a learned biologist or an acedemic science type person, I cannot give out theories and such like, as easily as someone with say your experience and knowledge. smiley - grovelsmiley - winkeye

However I read allot, I like to study Natural History in my own time for pleasure, in fact one of my mentors is David Attenborough and I absolutely loved David Belamy....heeeeee!

Thank you for asking me stesmiley - mod

Pleasure to talk with you smiley - smiley


How would you define life?

Post 185

trainspotter

maybe we are some kind of random accident occurring once every billion stars, perhaps. so we could say that life is a glitch in the ultimate universal theory that has altered it to a point where it actually had to become a 4(or more)-dimensional representation of itself.

So, in my opinion, life in this universe was just an accident. as for my other view (on the ultimate universal theory), it refers to the philosophical question: does a tree make a noise when it falls and is not heard by anything?


How would you define life?

Post 186

Researcher 556780



ste? where did you go smiley - erm...what did you think of what I wrote?


How would you define life?

Post 187

Ste

I'm sorry vixen, I find it difficult to keep up with h2g2 a lot of the time, I sometimes wish they'd be a ceasefire/amnesty for a week so I can catch up.

Ok, so when you say "life", you mean what I and other people would call "nature"? As in the very fabric of the universe, reality, biology, the whole shebang. That does make perfect sense to me, as I think the defining boundary between life and non-life (or the 'rest of "nature"') is actually pretty fuzzy when it comes down to it. "Life" might even be a total artifact of our limited thinking. So, I think we agree, but just with different terminology. smiley - ok

"I'm afraid I'm not a learned biologist or an acedemic science type person"

Aaahhh, who cares? Einstein was a postal clerk.

"I cannot give out theories and such like, as easily as someone with say your experience and knowledge."

You just did smiley - winkeye

"Pleasure to talk with you"

You too smiley - biggrin

Stesmiley - mod


How would you define life?

Post 188

knittingkittens(with string, just enough for a sandwich or two.)

I would define life as, "WE LOVE YOU, BABY" smiley - biggrinsmiley - mousesmiley - blackcat


How would you define life?

Post 189

Researcher 556780



Ohhh thanks ste smiley - biggrin

Really..... Einstein was a postal clerk? Well I dinnae know that!

smiley - magic


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