On Friday, October 5, 2012 7:05:06 AM UTC-4, rclough wrote: > > > > So it is reasonable to define life as that which can produce order > out of chaos" *. Since at least higher living beings > also possess consciousness, my "grand" hypothesis is that > > life = consciousness = awareness = producing order out of chaos. >
I agree Roger. I would add to this understanding however, a logarithmic sense of increasing quality of experience. human experience = consciousness > animal experience = awareness > microbiotic experience = sensation > inorganic experience = persistence of functions and structures. I would not say producing order out of chaos because I think that chaos is not primordial. Nonsense is a mismatch or attenuation of sense, not the other way around. Order cannot be produced from chaos unless chaos implicitly contains the potential for order...which makes the production of orderly appearance really just a formality. Craig -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msg/everything-list/-/y5Z0qwWOARAJ. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/everything-list?hl=en.
