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June 23 - July 17, 2019
The ancient idea that all living creatures were animated by some kind of supernatural substance or entity did at least provide some kind of explanation for the remarkable differences between the living and the nonliving. Life was different because it was moved by a spiritual soul rather than by any of those mundane mechanical forces.
The ancient idea that all living creatures were animated by some kind of supernatural substance or entity did at least provide some kind of explanation for the remarkable differences between the living and the nonliving. Life was different because it was moved by a spiritual soul rather than by any of those mundane mechanical forces.
Our billiard table can be said to be harvesting energy from high-entropy (chaotic) collisions to maintain part of itself, the triangle of balls in the middle, in a low-entropy (ordered) state.
Our billiard table can be said to be harvesting energy from high-entropy (chaotic) collisions to maintain part of itself, the triangle of balls in the middle, in a low-entropy (ordered) state.
free energy harvested from random molecular collisions (and their chemical reactions) is directed to maintain a body and make a copy of that body.
free energy harvested from random molecular collisions (and their chemical reactions) is directed to maintain a body and make a copy of that body.
Life is different. No one has ever discovered a condition that favors the direction: dead cell → live cell. This was of course the puzzle that prompted our ancestors to come up with the idea of a soul.
Life is different. No one has ever discovered a condition that favors the direction: dead cell → live cell. This was of course the puzzle that prompted our ancestors to come up with the idea of a soul.
The Nobel Prize–winning physicist Richard Feynman is credited with insisting that “what we can’t make, we don’t understand.”
The Nobel Prize–winning physicist Richard Feynman is credited with insisting that “what we can’t make, we don’t understand.”
