23302 | Plants have far less life than animals, but more life than other corporeal entities [Aristotle] |
7280 | As all life is one, what need is there for words? [Zhuangzi (Chuang Tzu)] |
5043 | To regard animals as mere machines may be possible, but seems improbable [Leibniz] |
4877 | Maybe plants are very slow (and sentient) animals, overlooked because we are faster? [Dennett] |
17567 | A flame is like a life, but not nearly so well individuated [Inwagen] |
17568 | A tumour may spread a sort of life, but it is not a life, or an organism [Inwagen] |
17569 | Unlike waves, lives are 'jealous'; it is almost impossible for them to overlap [Inwagen] |
17570 | The chemical reactions in a human life involve about sixteen elements [Inwagen] |
17576 | If God were to 'reassemble' my atoms of ten years ago, the result would certainly not be me [Inwagen] |
17580 | One's mental and other life is centred on the brain, unlike any other part of the body [Inwagen] |
17581 | Being part of an organism's life is a matter of degree, and vague [Inwagen] |
17584 | Some events are only borderline cases of lives [Inwagen] |
17585 | Life is vague at both ends, but could it be totally vague? [Inwagen] |
17586 | At the lower level, life trails off into mere molecular interaction [Inwagen] |
9324 | From the teleopragmatic perspective, life is largely an informational process [Gulick] |
7516 | In 1828, the stuff of life was shown to be ordinary chemistry, not a magic gel [Pinker] |
20652 | In 1828 the animal substance urea was manufactured from inorganic ingredients [Watson] |
20658 | Information is physical, and living can be seen as replicating and preserving information [Watson] |
6126 | Life is Movement, Respiration, Sensation, Nutrition, Excretion, Reproduction, Growth (MRS NERG) [PG] |