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> "is there anything fundamentally difference between life and non-life objects" is answered by scientific advancement No it isnt. Science has only made one c
by mjburgess 11y ago
> "is there anything fundamentally difference between life and non-life objects" is answered by scientific advancement
No it isnt. Science has only made one candidate for the meaning of "fundamental" trivial (in particular, that the physical substance of living things is the same substance of non-living things)- there are many other senses in which living things and non-livings things are fundamentally different. For example, all moral agents are necessarily alive. All non-living things are necessarily not moral agents.
- JoeAltmaier 11y agoHm. Not agreeing here. Either one is derived from / defined by the other somehow, so they are two words for one thing. Or there is supposed to be some property of life not mentioned that is necessary for moral agency. In which case a perfect simulation of a living thing, not alive in itself but identical in all knowable ways by definition, would have to have moral agency?