Five Arguments toward Understanding Life in Light of a Physics of the Immaterial

Proceedings

article

Carlos Eduardo Maldonado¹ 

[1]School of Medicine, Universidad El Bosque

关键词: quantum mechanics;    information theory;    origin of life;    logics of life;    complexity science;   

DOI  :  10.3390/proceedings2022081019

学科分类：社会科学、人文和艺术（综合）

来源: mdpi

【 摘 要 】

This paper argues that life is best understood in light of a physics of the immaterial. Life is not properly seen or touched, for instance, but conceived, imagined, intuited. In order to rightly grasp life in general, we need not reduce it in any sense, hence its counterintuitive character. The claim is based on five arguments: life is much more a process than a series of components; the first law of thermodynamics is important in thinking about processes; life entails a twofold perspective that opens up the window, so to speak, to the possible rather than only the actual; living beings are not machines in any sense of the word (biological hypercomputation); and life is an autopoietic or self-organized phenomenon. Some conclusions are drawn at the end.

【 授权许可】

CC BY