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A comment on A New Physics Theory of Life (2014). Parent comment
Rather than saying some things are life and others non-life, I would instead say that some are living and (most) others, non-living.
Are you seriously going to claim there is no objective way to say that a fish is alive and a star isn't?
If so, I would surmise that we disagree on fundamental issues and thereby cannot have a productive discussion.
"By empirical, objective, materialist measure you are a biological machine - a material process - that's it."
Do you have empirical, objective, materialist and definitions of "biological" and "machine"? Or even "process"?
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Rather than saying some things are life and others non-life, I would instead say that some are living and (most) others, non-living.
Are you seriously going to claim there is no objective way to say that a fish is alive and a star isn't?
If so, I would surmise that we disagree on fundamental issues and thereby cannot have a productive discussion.
"By empirical, objective, materialist measure you are a biological machine - a material process - that's it."
Do you have empirical, objective, materialist and definitions of "biological" and "machine"? Or even "process"?