Hi Hal Ruhl Talk to Dawkins. The purpose of the gene is to create more genes. So the purpose of life (at a minimum) is to create more life. You may notice that earth was once lifeless but its surface become alive with plants, fishes and the other stuff from Genesis 1.
Roger Clough, rclo...@verizon.net 11/9/2012 "Forever is a long time, especially near the end." -Woody Allen ----- Receiving the following content ----- From: Hal Ruhl Receiver: everything-list Time: 2012-11-08, 12:02:17 Subject: RE: Life: origin, purpose, and qualia spectrum Hi Stephen: -----Original Message----- From: everything-list@googlegroups.com [mailto:everything-list@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Stephen P. King Sent: Wednesday, November 07, 2012 6:56 PM To: everything-list@googlegroups.com Subject: Re: Life: origin, purpose, and qualia spectrum On 11/7/2012 11:40 AM, Hal Ruhl wrote: > Hi Stephen: > > pAP1 is #8 of the discussion initiating posts > > 8) Conclusion (2): Once life is present it will immediately punch as > many holes in as many Energy Hang-up Barriers as the details of the > particular life entity involved allows - this is how it realizes its > energy flow conduit character. This is the "purpose" of life herein. > In other words life's purpose is to hasten the heat death of its host universe. > > Hal Dear Hal, Is "heat death" truly real or a necessary concept? Well the term has been around for awhile but I have not seen a proposed end state or series of end states of the universe in which the ability to run a heat engine does not become zero or asymptotically approach it. Hal > > > -----Original Message----- > From: everything-list@googlegroups.com > [mailto:everything-list@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Stephen P. King > Sent: Wednesday, November 07, 2012 11:07 AM > To: everything-list@googlegroups.com > Subject: Re: Life: origin, purpose, and qualia spectrum > > On 11/7/2012 9:38 AM, Hal Ruhl wrote: >> Hi Everyone: >> >> This may show up more than once as a few others did. In recent days >> I have had issues with my internet connection. It has been 16 hours >> since I sent this the second time. This time I tried sending it >> again and then again as plain text. Very sorry if my troubles cause >> some > clutter. >> At this time I would like to go a bit further re item iii: >> >> iii) Species survival: Life on this planet is in the midst of an >> extinction event [not a new idea] that can't be stopped because pAP1 >> would be the only priority for life. We may not be extinguished as a >> species but we can't exclude ourselves from the extinction because of >> pAP1 [fixed typo]. There have been a number of extinction events. >> However, evolution has used some of these to produce new life >> entities with greater energy hang-up barrier busting ability than the >> extinguished ones - new life entities such as ourselves from the K-Pg > event. >> iiia) Current Economic Conditions: The news in this area has been >> rather bad for some time. The most frequently offered solution has >> been that national economies and thus the world economy must grow >> real GDP. In fact grow it exponentially or even super exponentially. >> Since the planet has only a finite supply of energy - see prior posts >> under #2 for energy types - a new trick has to be learned. However, >> the offered solution is in compliance with pAP1. Thus if pAP1 is >> correct then no other solution [new trick] can be offered. In this >> case weep for the children. I hope someone can falsify pAP1 and >> anything > near it. >> >> Hal >> > Dear Hal, > > Could you restate pAP1? > > > -- Onward! Stephen -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. To post to this group, send email to everything-list@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to everything-list+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/everything-list?hl=en. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. To post to this group, send email to everything-list@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to everything-list+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/everything-list?hl=en. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. To post to this group, send email to everything-list@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to everything-list+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/everything-list?hl=en.
