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RCSaunders wrote: ↑Sun Jun 27, 2021 12:09 pm No. I'm not making an argument, I'm only describing what is so simple any reasonable individual can understand it. The, "empirical," evidence for the attribute life is every living organism that obviously has that attribute that no non-living entity has.

Nothing has any meaning or purpose except to living organisms. Meaning and purpose begin and have meaning only to beings for which there are alternatives. The existence of a living organism, as a living organism, depends on the behavior of the organism. No organism, "just has," life. Every organism must act to sustain its own existence. That is what living is.

Your argument is essentially "it is alive thus it is life" and that would be the end of it because there is no 'meaning' to life beyond what it entails for life to 'be alive'. Is that correct?

RCSaunders wrote: ↑Sun Jun 27, 2021 12:09 pmIf you are interested in learning the true nature of existence and life you might find these articles interesting. Otherwise, ignore them.

Ontology Introduction


The Nature of Life

The Nature of Consciousness

Perception

The Nature of the Mind


The Physical, Life, Consciousness, and The Human Mind—A Preface

RC

Thanks for the links! I will have a look at the topics. ‍

Terrapin Station wrote: ↑Sun Jun 27, 2021 12:15 pm

theory wrote: ↑Thu Jun 24, 2021 1:55 pm The fact that until 2021 no scientist has even considered to test whether Earth life is possible farther away from Earth or outside a region around the Sun,

What in the world are you talking about? Aren't you familiar with astrobiology/exobiology, SETI, etc.? That stuff isn't new.

earth life hasn't traveled farther than the moon as of 2021. It resulted in the question: why?

Why wasn't it tested whether Earth life is possible farther away from Earth?

Is there at least one clue that Earth life is independent from the Solar system?

As it appears, there is a dogma so strong that even top scientists at NASA and Russia's space agency believe without question that life is like a fire that is owned on an individual level, and that can be taken with one on space travel.

What else could explain that it was never tested in 2021 whether Earth life is possible further than the Moon? Not even a bacteria went farther than the Moon.

With regard plausibility of the idea that life is like a fire that is owned on an individual level. It would imply that causality would need to find its origin on the individual level and a human life would need to be predetermined towards its environment, which is absurd.