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I don't much like the spark and fire analogy with life. Not sure what analogy works. We don't yet really understand life well enough to have a good one.
by intrasight 3y ago
I don't much like the spark and fire analogy with life. Not sure what analogy works. We don't yet really understand life well enough to have a good one.
- TeMPOraL 3y agoWhat oxygen-breathing cells do is pretty much nanoscale combustion, so the analogy seems apt.
- mensetmanusman 3y agoThe proton gradients are quite different from combustion though…
- anticensor 3y agoThe proton gradient serves to regulate the combustion, one molecule at a time...
- gitaarik 3y agoThat's the whole reason why they call it like that, because they don't understand it and it seems like something magical. And it will always be like that in the current materialistic paradigm. Why would dead unconscious matter suddenly combine into something which seems to have some kind of consciousness? Also see the Hard problem of consciousness: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hard_problem_of_consciousness https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hard_problem_of_consciousnes...