Hi Jonathan:
Quick question. Is it possible to measure and quantify the desire on the
part of organisms to live?
I ask because the MOQ posits a battle between the biological and
inorganic levels and was wondering what force the biological level might
have or tap into that helps it win some of the battles. I know vitalism has
been thoroughly discredited by science, but how does biology explain
the observable "will to live" or the "survival instinct?"
>From what I can find out, life is defined mostly by what it does, basically
self-replication and mutability, among other things. But, being alive
ourselves, we feel that life is more than the ability to do certain things,
but rather IS something--a process, flow, an energy--something that
persists in time "inside us" that we wish to continue. Anything
measurable along those lines?
Thanks.
Platt
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