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   Is life on Earth a mystery?

   • The origin of life on Earth stands as one of the great mysteries of science. Various answers have been proposed, all of which remain unverified. To find out if we are alone in the galaxy, we will need to better understand what geochemical conditions nurtured the first life forms.

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   How do we understand life?

   • In order to understand life, we must treat living creatures as computers and biological information as the software of life. By information, Davies means far more than the data that we process in our brains and encode in our genes.

   Could biological ‘information’ solve the mystery of life

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   What constitutes life?

   • The question of what constitutes life has dogged scientists since the early days. Aristotle was the first to attempt to define life, and his proposal boils down to life being something that grows and maintains itself (he called this "nutrition"), and reproduces.

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   Is life a problem to be solved?

   • That approach has obviously been spectacularly successful. Life is not a problem to be solved, but a reality to be experienced. It has not, however, been enough. The frontier now seems to be understanding life as a complex adaptive system, meaning one in which organization and cause occur on many levels.

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   What are some problems with definitions of life?

   • This is the problem with most proposed definitions of life: They tend of have loopholes. For example, some have proposed that life is that which can reproduce itself. However, that definition would exclude mules, which are born sterile, and would include nonliving things like fire.

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   How long did life last on Earth?

   • Scientists think that by 4.3 billion years ago, Earth may have developed conditions suitable to support life. The oldest known fossils, however, are only 3.7 billion years old. During that 600 million-year window, life may have emerged repeatedly, only to be snuffed out by catastrophic collisions with asteroids and comets.

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2. medium.com › personal-growth › the-mystery-of-lifeThe Mystery Of Life. There’s a mind beyond the brain which ...

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   Aug 31, 2023 · But there are some clues that it does exist. What we know of it is much more a matter of personal experience though. What we sometimes refer to as intuition, epiphanies, and revelations. Even...

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   Dec 10, 2010 · In the wake of controversy over the possible discovery of arsenic-eating life last week, a basic question perhaps deserves revisiting: Just what, exactly, is life?

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5. bigthink.com › 13-8 › mystery-of-lifeThe mystery of life cannot be solved by science - Big Think

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   Today I would like to take on these questions through the lens of another question. Can science answer this basic weirdness, or is there a fundamental mystery of life? Once I did a public debate with a guy who was into transhumanism (which essentially holds that one day we will merge with computers). He was adamant that ultimately science would exp...

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   The reason I take that position is because there is a profound and (literally) existential difference between an explanation and experience. We humans invented the marvelous process called science to understand the patterns we experience around us. We did this because we are curious creatures by nature and because we also hope to gain some control ...

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   Let’s turn once again to our question: is life a mystery? It is good to remember Søren Kierkegaard’s famous admonition: “Life is not a problem to be solved, but a reality to be experienced.” This perspective does not diminish science in any way. That is because our experience of science itselfheightens our appreciation of the world, like the rush y...

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   Sep 19, 2022 · The origin of life on Earth stands as one of the great mysteries of science. Various answers have been proposed, all of which remain unverified. To find out if we are alone in the galaxy, we will need to better understand what geochemical conditions nurtured the first life forms.

7. www.psychologytoday.com › us › blogThe Metaphysical Mystery of Life, Mind, and Culture

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   May 29, 2020 · Solving the metaphysical mystery of life, mind, and culture. Posted May 29, 2020. Galileo is generally credited with being the father of modern science. As this lecture aptly describes, he ...

8. www.ft.com › content › 18a58ac4-18cc-11e9-b93e-f4351Could biological ‘information’ solve the mystery of life?

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   Jan 17, 2019 · How the whole process started — the origin of life — remains a total mystery. The problem is doubly difficult because life is both hardware (chemistry) and software (information).

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   Feb 25, 2019 · In an attempt to answer these big questions – what exactly is life, how and why does it emerge, and what distinguishes the living from the non-living – science writer and physicist Paul Davies offers his latest book, The Demon in the Machine: How Hidden Webs of Information are Solving the Mystery of Life.