If you take out the word number and just leave label – Why is it nonsensical to say that life is a label we assign to a specific state of some system? It’s not the physical ingredients of the system that distinguish living from dead, but the arrangement, state and activity of the atoms etc...
I don’t think soul/spirit is a good choice – those words evoke emotional responses. If you use them some people make assumptions and associations that destroy any opportunity for a rational discussion. What about calling it ‘sense of self’ or the “I” or the ‘me” because everyone has experience...
I’m discussing the possibility. I don’t know the answer. It seems to me the idea has some merit and to arrogantly dismiss it without giving any logical and rational explanation why is just narrow minded. It’s you who has reached a conclusion.
Is it doesn’t exist the only possibility? If...
Unfair - I have no position - only questions. I know there’s a lot of rubbish associated with new age energy ideas, but this is a serious question I have wondered about for a long time. I don’t read new age stuff because it’s mostly meaningless, feel good dribble. I read physics stuff to try and...
Sigh. Physics is so mystical, I mean mysterious. Especially their idea of energy. I can't seem to wrap my head around it.
Dead bodies have energy? They can measure this? Can you say more?
But energy is a "property of a body" and so is life. A process is by definition dynamic, so it...
Your link about vitalism says - "In physics, energy is a term to express the power to move things, either potential or actual. Energy is not a thing itself, but an attribute of something."
Why can't this be applied to living bodies? They can move things. Why not a form of energy?
In the chinese art of Tai Chi, the word chi is usually translated as energy. The exercises are designed to keep our energy flowing through the body.
What does physics have to say about this idea? Could life be considered a form of energy?