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.
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.