Posted: Aug 26, 2016 7:41 pm
jamest wrote:
You could say that life has agency, but that conclusion would have arisen from reason not a tape-measure. What else could you say about life in terms of physical measurements if it were [by definition] completely disassociated from the material body? Nothing.
Your word salad is broken, jamest. I value you as a member of this forum, and I appreciate that you try really hard to convey your ideas, even though you are not, in fact, a special little snowflake. But, the thing is, if life were completely disassociated from the material body, the material body would be dead.
Oh, and I also don't think we can say that life has agency. There are a lot of living things which we don't say have agency. If they have life, but they don't have agency, then it follows that life doesn't have agency. Unless you'd like to start a cyanobacteria rights movement. I would respect and support that. Because I like ridiculous things.