---- Awori <awori.ach...@gmail.com> wrote: > > In heated discourse about the meaning of nature---I was one time asked > to define life. This is what I said: "Life is a moment in space and > time". To my disappointment--I got no reaction from the group. Is it > because I was absurdly wrong? I have continued to use this response as > my standard explanation of what life is. Has anyone in out there given > this age old subject a better look? > > AA Whoever asks to define life, just wants to tease his interlocutor. conceptually, no one can prove life. Still people talks about it, according to their own experience: The scientist will say that life is a molecular process, religion conceives life as a transcendental principle, and mystics, as some kind of energy. You say that life is "an instant of space and time" (reminds me of the Kodak moment: Dead in every instance) ; the problem with life is that life is us; from inside the shell very little can be said; our existential coordinates of space and time only reveal that we are unhinged from time and lost in space.
"My life: A yes, a naught, a straight line,...an end" Nietzsche. > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Epistemology" group. > To post to this group, send email to epistemol...@googlegroups.com. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > epistemology+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/epistemology?hl=en. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Epistemology" group. To post to this group, send email to epistemol...@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to epistemology+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/epistemology?hl=en.
