Thglimited - Heavy Industries

What is life? My thoughts

As a kind of introduction, this whole thing is more a result of observation. Intelligent lifeforms exhibit a kind of non-linear, non-deterministic movement. I do not claim to know the source of this movement or behavior, except it exhibits a small degree of unpredictability. This unpredictability could simply be due to a deterministic process of which we are unaware. I am not claiming a supernatural source for these events. I am uncertain of the actual source. However from my study of science, it seems scientists have a basic grasp of all the physical forces at work, even if they have yet to acquire the clarity to put all the forces into a unified framework. It is possible another deterministic universe is subtly interacting with our own and thus resulting in the apparent order of the universe and life itself. This other deterministic universe could be acting kinda like a filter which brings out(brightening) certain features, while reducing(darkening, i.e. amplitude reduction) other features, and to a degree coloring(frequency modification) our own universe.

Life is any object which operates partly via non-mechanical law or a non-mechanical based science. We may call non-mechanical events choice, but that may not be an appropriate term, as these non-mechanical events could be spontaneous small amplitude transient events. Non-mechanical events are able to influence normal mechanical events, what may be referred to as the deterministic universe. Basically in our case via complex organic structures small non-mechanical events are able to be multiplied or amplified into large scale events. For instance you have a setup brain potential(ion gateways at a neuron) that is triggered by an event. This starts a cascade of electrical activity in the brain which results in an electrical signal being sent to the muscle causing the hand to move. Life, at least as far as everyday human experience, lives in a deterministic world, even if life itself is not perfectly deterministic. Life is nearly perfectly deterministic though – at least the common experience of life. Temporary violation of some conservation law could give rise to these non-mechanical events. Like a virtual photon for instance could nudge an electron over a few nm and then disappear. Some interpretations of quantum mechanics make such predictions. Virtual particles could be the events by which this thing we call life operates. Virtual particles would have a temporary existence and only result in small effects, but still have enough of an effect to be noticed.

If I were to create a simple definition of life, I would say life observes, and by its observation it modifies the environment around it. The laws under which life is bound have to time space invariant. Basically in all positions in space and for all time that the universe has existed, life had to exist or rather the potential for life had to exist. Mathematics had to exist prior to physical law existing. Physical law is a subset of mathematical law. Basically the same principles which results in a star differentiating from its surroundings, thus becoming an object with which other objects rotate around, likely resulting in the formation of life. The matter-antimatter asymmetry may also potentially be explained as the result of small deterministic events, which like a snowflake forming around a speck of dust resulted in a preference for matter versus antimatter.