“And so people come to sorts of agreements about, uh, how much of a wiggle is a wiggle; that is to say a thing. One wiggle, you can always reduce any one wiggle into sub-wiggles. Or see it as a subordinate wiggle in a bigger wiggle. But there’s no real fixed rule about it”
Life is anything that moves, reproduces, senses, grows, respires, excretes and eats.
Consciousness is more mysterious and less well defined.
Yes, but how do living things come into existence? What makes a cell alive?
It’s not about defining what a living being is.
Jiggling. It’s about wiggling and jiggling.
“And so people come to sorts of agreements about, uh, how much of a wiggle is a wiggle; that is to say a thing. One wiggle, you can always reduce any one wiggle into sub-wiggles. Or see it as a subordinate wiggle in a bigger wiggle. But there’s no real fixed rule about it”
Does a wave wiggle or jiggle?