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- From: kv07@IASTATE.EDU (Warren Vonroeschlaub)
- Subject: Re: Probability of Evolution
- Message-ID: <1992Nov20.171256@IASTATE.EDU>
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- Reply-To: kv07@IASTATE.EDU (Warren Vonroeschlaub)
- Organization: Ministry of Silly Walks
- References: <bps1cfd@rpi.edu> <2mVHuB5w165w@kalki33>
- Date: Fri, 20 Nov 1992 23:12:56 GMT
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- In article <2mVHuB5w165w@kalki33>, kalki33!system@lakes.trenton.sc.us writes:
- > johnsd2@vccnw05.its.rpi.edu.its1 (Daniel Norman Johnson) writes:
- >>>I agree with this statement. It is not necessary to have a planet to
- >>>have life. In fact, matter is not neccessary for life.
- >>
- >> Depends what you mean by life. But you may be right; matter
- >> is required for life as we know it, but what else may be possible,
- >> who can tell..
- >
- >Yes, who can tell... Our point is that there is someone who CAN tell,
- >and we follow his definition of life. The definitions of life given by
- >reductionistic science are not able to account for many of the
- >properties of life. One glaring deficiency of reductionism is in the
- >area of consciousness, which is certainly a property of "life as we know
- >it" but cannot be shown to follow from any known physical laws.
-
- How can we know that consciousness is a property of life if your only definition
- is that it is a property of life and it cannot be measured? What evidence do
- you have to back up this rather bold assertion?
-
- > > My name's Dan, actually, not prabhu.
- >
- > "prabhu" simply means "dear sir" or "master" in Sanskrit. It is a
- > respectful form of address.
-
- Uh, I believe "prabhu" is Hindi, shishya.
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