Lecture2: What is Life?

Problems of definition ,[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object]

Aristotle ,[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object]

Soul ,[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object]

Soul continued ,[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object]

Great Chain of Being Life? being Gems + generation Flame + nutritive Plants + appetitive + locomotory + sensitive Brutes + reason Man + incorruption Heaven + perfection Angels All souls God

Failings of Aristotle’s Psychism ,[object Object],[object Object],[object Object]

Modern views ,[object Object],[object Object],[object Object]

Thermodynamic life - Schrödinger ,[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object]

Chemical life ,[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object]

Mathematical life - Information and Alife ,[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object]

Orgel’s combined definition ,[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object]

Eigen - a physicist among the biologists ,[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object]

Dawkins and Hull - The Replicator ,[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object]

So, where does that leave us? ,[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object]

Lecture2: What is Life?

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