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Explosions in the Sky (mander.xyz)

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago (2 children)

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

Consciousness is more mysterious and less well defined.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

Yes, but how do living things come into existence? What makes a cell alive?

It's not about defining what a living being is.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Jiggling. It's about wiggling and jiggling.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 months ago (1 children)

“Jiggle physics is the real science. Everything else is stamp collecting.” - Einstein maybe

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 months ago

"What is a jiggleo?

A dead body

Well, he ain't really dead, but he ain't like

Anybody that you've ever met before

He'll eat monopoly and shit out connect four"

-ICP

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

“And so people come to sorts of agreements about, uh, how much of a wiggle is a wiggle; that is to say a thing. One wiggle, you can always reduce any one wiggle into sub-wiggles. Or see it as a subordinate wiggle in a bigger wiggle. But there’s no real fixed rule about it”

[–] [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] 3 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?