But even if I could explain how the entropic gradients were overcome, how life managed to breach boundary after boundary, — MikeL
...a close comparison of pierce's semiotic pan-psychism to both standard materialism and Berkley's idealism. — sime
It's simple. The chemicals get together and become "dedicated". After that It All Just Happens Naturally. — Rich
informational mechanism can milk the — apokrisis
Infodynamics is information and dynamics — apokrisis
I have found no practical way to define life. — Pollywalls
a thing becomes another thing when it has all the essential parts. a dead thing becomes alive when it completely fits the definition of a living thing. until that it is dead. — Pollywalls
How then does the unity of the living ameba as identity emerge from the structures of its non-life components? — javra
Here is an open letter from an organic chemist to his colleagues about the unlikelihood of replicating cellular mechanisms forming spontaneously. — Wayfarer
Not that this resolves what life shares in common with non-life that is a continuum.... — javra
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