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Why is life considered as a category that may repeat elsewhere in the universe? [closed]
I’ve asked about the origin of intelligent life before, focusing on probabilities, but now I’m curious about what justifies treating life as a special category that might repeat, while we generally ...
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Is “Life” an Observer-Relative Concept? [closed]
Very few people fully grasp this idea, so I’ll lay it out as plainly and briskly as possible.
Start with determinism. Every neuron fires because of what happened just before it. What we feel as “...
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Is awareness the purpose of life? Or at least integral to the purpose? [closed]
I have been thinking a lot about awareness. Awareness as in the ability to perceive on any level which includes all of life from a single cell responding to heat or cold to a human considering self ...
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Is it fallacious to posit alien life just based on the size of the universe?
Many scientists and many people, if not most of the world, believe that there is life elsewhere on the universe. Many of them also believe that there is advanced life out there in the universe that ...
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Is it possible to use a definition of 'living' which includes panpsychism?
Despite google's definition of a living organism as something that exhibits life and life being "the state or quality that distinguishes living organisms from non-living entities, characterized ...
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The argument that all human lives matter [closed]
Do you believe that every life matters? Every human life at least. Let's sideline any other beings just for this argument.
If you do believe that every life matters, does it mean that every life ...
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Am I misinterpreting Grim's [93] paper about graphs of truth-value assignments to liar-like sentences?
Here's the "offending" graph (i.e. the one that's "confusing" me (see further below)):
This picture very strongly reminds me of something with frequently-crustacean features/...
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Metaphysics of fortunes/misfortunes balance sheet in personal life
A metaphysical philosophy of health problems explores the nature of
illness and disease beyond the purely physical realm, considering
concepts like the mind-body connection, the role of spiritual
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What is the optimal aim for a human being according to present knowledge of Philosophy? [closed]
It seems that slight variation in aim, seems to make lot of changes in things made in human life. I wanted to know optimal aim for human being from the present knowledge of Philosophy.
For this ...
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Is life inherently more complex than other types of things in the universe?
Let’s take an example of a life form such as a tiger. Is it more or less complex than something like a planet?
For centuries, people looked at life forms and assumed they were designed. This inference,...
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Looking for a Nietzsche quote!
I was wondering whether anyone could help me find the source of the following excerpt from Haruhiko Shiratori's Japanese translation of Nietzsche's works: "ニーチェ［超］入門 生きるための哲学." Granted, I ...
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What is truth of life? [duplicate]
I always wonder about this what is truth of our existence and everything. Why are we born, why do we die, what happens when someone dies, what is purpose of life... And so on. And why am I even ...
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Sacrifice an important person to save the world or sacrifice the whole world to study an important person? [closed]
I have the power to destroy the world, what should I do if I need to sacrifice the whole world to save someone important to me?
This is an important issue, let me know what you think.
There is no ...
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Does naturalism predict the rarity of life better than theism? [closed]
If there is no god, then that would imply the origin of life would have to be undesigned. If it is undesigned, it would have to occur through an improbable process (there are many more ways for ...
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How can we evaluate the probability of intelligent life forms existing on other planets? [closed]
In popular culture, the sheer size of the universe is taken as evidence to imply that intelligent life forms also likely exist somewhere out there. Given that intelligent life forms evolved here, why ...
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