Life
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Started: | 10/25/2016 | Category: | Philosophy | ||
Updated: | 2 years ago | Status: | Post Voting Period | ||
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I'd like to argue that there is nothing "special", nothing inherently unique about life and living organisms. It's just a highly complex system of interacting matter. My opponent will be arguing that there is something special about life that makes it inherently different from the environment around it. I'll probably go as far as arguing that the concept of "life" is flawed and pointless.
Any questions or definitions will be discussed in comments. I'm sorry if the question/issue doesn't make sense, feel free to ask in comments. the human body is the most advanced physical form i know.. but life is nature, nature is at a much more advanced level then machines lfe is the only connection to reality |
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"the human body is the most advanced physical form i know.. but life is nature, nature is at a much more advanced level then machines"
I largely agree with everything you said. "lfe is the only connection to reality" Connection between reality and what? You seem to be lacking a central argument, haven't shown anything that makes life unique from the matter around it. I see no threat to my central claim yet. well life is real and i see no argument for your claim.. your claim is nothing |
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My claim: Life is matter, so is the environment, so is everything else we normally regard as "tangible". It is all the same, there is nothing special in living things.
"Life is real". Then I challenge you to define it. |
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"life=true+emotion"
I don't know what truth has to do with life, but I don't think you can claim that emotion has anything to do with life as it absurd to claim that organisms like bacteria have what we can call "emotions" unless you have quite a phenomenal study up your sleeve. You still haven't really contested my claim... truth is death, life can not exist without death your claim has no value, you can not win without an argument or position |
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I agree that my position is a bit vague and I apologize for that. However, you still haven't shown that life is anything more than the matter that it's made of, and that it's in any real way unique from the "non-living" stuff that surrounds it.
not a bit vague. if you have no position how could you possibly win? so far you have made a claim, so a question like, why is life not special? goes to your position my position is automaticly life is special, so thats a defeater to your claim already why is matter not special? you dont like food? special foods? sex? peeing a smiley in the snow? what is so special about nothing? ok life is special, life is true emotion.. and being dead there is nothing special about life or at all.. so whatever is special, is life so what is so special about non special if there is all to be special, as life? these are just pointers.. its like you want me to fight an invisible man and you havnt told me where he i cant find him nor has there been any signs of there being an invisible man to fight.. |
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