Purpose, Value, Evolution, Consciousness, Sentience, Life & Emergence of Mind From Matter | Terrence Deacon | 95
Mind & Matter
Is There a Difference Between Life and Non-Life?
A living system should break down and yet somehow it's organized in a way that prevents it from doing so. When things become more ordered, we're just saying that they're less than chaotic. Not all degrees of freedom are being realized. And as things become more order, just the opposite happens. We subtract off degrees of freedom. But still what it doesn't do when my body finally dies is the constraints on the possible chemistry are going to relax. All the constrained chemistry will be gone. To some extent, death is a chemical increase in freedom. So in a sense, life is about prevention of entropy, about prevention of coming to an end. It's something that not all possibilities are
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