On Jul 4, 2007, at 1:14 AM, Tom McCabe wrote:
That definition isn't accurate, because it doesn't
match what we intuitively see as 'death'. 'Death' is
actually fairly easy to define, compared to "good" or
even "truth"; I would define it as the permanent
destruction of a large portion of the information that
makes up a sentient being's mind.
Randall Randall:
I would say that 'life' is a process, and that
the cessation of the process is death.
Yes.
I don't
happen to agree with Heartland that the process
is summed up by electrical activity in the brain.
So it looks like there's still some discrepancy between what we mean by
process. I
think the essence of any process is some transfer (flow) of energy. Electrical
activity is just one example of such transfer. Throwing a ball would be another.
How do you define process?
The information that describes a person's mind is
a description of the person, not the person. Put
that way, it sounds tautological...
It's a classic problem of mistaking a symbol for the thing that the symbol refers
to.
H.
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