• @[email protected]
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    34 months ago

    What is “sensing” or “growing” or “respiring” or “excreting” or “eating”?

    • JackGreenEarth
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      24 months ago

      I would define those terms, but you would just ask me to define the terms I used to define them, wouldn’t you? Eventually, language is known by other people without being defined in terms of language.

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        4 months ago

        Not really, i left out the term reproduce because i think it has some reality. But others like sensing — does an atom changing the electron cloud due to an electric feild or nearby atom count as sensing because it senses the presence of nearby atoms or whatever?

        Won’t growing constitute of some large mass body collecting more mass due to its gravitation?