Re:What is Life? by Erwin Schrödinger (1944) [pdf]
by occamschainsaw on Monday January 14, 2019 @11:17PM
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The mice would like to have a word with you[42]
[42]https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/profiles/1MmQjXrkwp98jNdc17...
Re:What is Life? by Erwin Schrödinger (1944) [pdf]
by neuronic on Tuesday January 15, 2019 @05:33AM
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What if even stars in a galaxy form a communicative network, communication meaning sending and reacting to signals on a purely physical basis which doesn't translate to a meaning to us yet. Gravity waves, electromagnetic signals, signals we are not aware of... I am not saying stars talk gossip but that there could be a signal exchange and a systemic reaction. We see it in practically all life forms on Earth and a in a way in the non-alive world as well when you look at the climate, for example.
I mean, when I speak I physically interact and transmit signals through air vibrations which we developed to both detect and interpret. Other perceptive "life" forms would have a hard time telling what we communicate about as well. Hell, we can barely if at all understand what other mammals communicate about despite their biophysical systems being incredibly similar to our own. Plants communicate with chemical signals and root/fungi networks.
Predicted pictures of the universe at large look eerily like the brain's structure as well.
Re:What is Life? by Erwin Schrödinger (1944) [pdf]
by hopler on Tuesday January 15, 2019 @11:14PM
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Certainly everything with gravitational mass or electromagnetic energy communicates with others via the waves and particles of physics. The question is only in the complexity of these messages compared to biological and psychological processes.
Given the current empirical evidences we have, it's not particularity persuasive, but an extremely interesting imagination and proposal indeed.