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Would all anti-entropic forces be considered living?

I don't exactly know how to phrase the question, but it seems like most forces in the universe are governed by physical processes where entropy is constantly increasing. Then you have Earth, where we have living organisms that expend energy to…
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Is fire a living thing?

According to Biology Online, life can be defined as "A distinctive characteristic of a living organism from dead organism or non-living thing, as specifically distinguished by the capacity to grow, metabolize, respond (to stimuli), adapt, and…
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Significance of life in Bhagavad Gītā

I'm watching lectures of prof. Jay L. Garfield named "Meaning of Life: Perspectives from the World’s Great Intellectual Traditions". The first three lectures are discussing Bhagavad Gita. Two ideas (among others) I've learnt from those lectures…
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What way of worldview/philosophical thinking is this?

If someone sees the world as inherently bad, because humans dominate other species, kill animals, and evolution produced this without a way out, is there a specific name for this kind of thinking?
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What is the point of staying alive if everyone dies eventually?

We all will die one day. We all know the life is difficult. We may live long lives, but death will come sooner or later for everyone. It is inevitable. Why should we bother living at all, facing the difficulties that it offers, if it is simply going…
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Philosophy vs. Real Life

I read and listen to learn about life, existence, and consciousness. I find it comforting and interesting to realize how much I don’t know. However, in a split second, one of my children yell for me, and all is lost. Until I come back to read again…
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Does TV resolution hints we are living in a loop?

Let's assume our minimum meaningful resolution on black and white TV is 480P, the permutation of each frame possible to be displayed is still quite big, but still finite. A 1080P colour TV gives much bigger permutation but still finite. Say at time…
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Why children's lives matter more?

In a life threatening situation where you can save only a limited number of people the ones saved first are always children and women. Why is that the case that children and women lives are worth more ? Is there a reasoning behind this ?
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Let's suppose that life is happening by itself, how we can verify if it is really the case?

So, let's suppose that there's no entity behind our thoughts, choosing them, no entity behind our actions, it's all happening by itself (by an infinity universal force that is common to everything, that infinity intelligence would be the real you,…
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fear of initiating the conversation.

How come we talk to random strangers while traveling from place A to place B, Its easy to talk to strangers asking for direction but there are few neighbors, I know them for a decade now but haven't had a conversation till now. Is this the fear of…
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Will life exist forever?

This question Does all matter exist forever? has inspired me with a related question: Will life exist forever? Here life is meant in the widest sense. It need not be an organism based on carbon or silicon. Perhaps the answer should focus on: Will…
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Ultimate Goal of Life?

I'm currently enrolled in an Advanced Placement Literature class at my high school and yesterday we had a discussion on the ultimate goal of life. Our teacher asked us to interpret this quote to begin the discussion. The unexamined life is not…
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How is life defined mathematically?

I'm interested in the topic life, as every one should and when it crosses my mind I started reading about its different explanations like in biology they say life is combination of metabolism and reproduction , in chemistry it's chemical reaction…
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If the earth was only 1 year old, would that make the probability of life starting by design more likely?

If the earth was literally a year old, would that make it more likely that life’s origins were designed? The reason I ask is simple: given that the earth is claimed to have existed for 4+ billion years, despite the origin of life being considered…
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Immortality through technology?

I speak with a lot of quite terrified post humanists at the moment: terrified that they will miss the technological singularity and immortal life. But I can't help but think that they immortality is impossible: the multiverse is finite... then no…
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