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Explosions in the Sky (mander.xyz)

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[–] radicalautonomy 3 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Reminds me of this Pete Holmes bit.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago (7 children)

Life is anything that moves, reproduces, senses, grows, respires, excretes and eats.

Consciousness is more mysterious and less well defined.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago (1 children)

What is "sensing" or "growing" or "respiring" or "excreting" or "eating"?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I would define those terms, but you would just ask me to define the terms I used to define them, wouldn't you? Eventually, language is known by other people without being defined in terms of language.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Not really, i left out the term reproduce because i think it has some reality. But others like sensing — does an atom changing the electron cloud due to an electric feild or nearby atom count as sensing because it senses the presence of nearby atoms or whatever?

Won't growing constitute of some large mass body collecting more mass due to its gravitation?

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago

and then downvotes it

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago

Mind that textbook we did in school?

I’m still tripping

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago

Actually I live in a skip but thanks for the pep talk.

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