Life=logic

[AntonioLao]

John Holland investigated complexity of emergence from chaos to order to higher forms of life. I talked to him in the early 1990s but lost touch with his recent works. The size of the brain has something to do with higher forms of cognition or metacognition. The amount of connections between neurons can lead to higher thinking of self-reflection and self-consciousness making philosophical thinking possible. I have already calculated the maximum numbers of possible neural connections in other posts.

See more about John Holland at

http://www.seas.upenn.edu/whatsnew/penderaward/jh.html

[Marketa]

Hello Guille, Antonio!
I've studied logic a bit, and logic itself is something - I can't think up the more convinient name - illogical. If you start to do your reasoning profoundly, you end up somewhere among paradoxes. And these paradoxes reveal the core of logic: it's faith. Since every paradox consists of two parts which are together a nonsense (paradox), it's on you, which part you consider to be true - and as both parts are both logical - or both illogical, it depends on your point of view - it's all about faith.

[Guille]

marketa,

looking at your explenation why logic is faith, it looks more like if what you were proving is that logic is relative. Don't you think?

What do you think directly about logic being life (logic being nature)?

[Marketa]

"Logic" is derived from Greek "logos" which had originally few quite interesting meanings: a word; a thought, an idea; a language; a reason.

The main goal of logic is to find laws and principles which lead to conclusions which follow premises. And I think that nature - e.g. atoms, forces, etc. seems to be a kind of such defined logic. As well as human beings.

[Guille]

"Logic" is derived from Greek "logos" which had originally few quite interesting meanings: a word; a thought, an idea; a language; a reason.

The main goal of logic is to find laws and principles which lead to conclusions which follow premises. And I think that nature - e.g. atoms, forces, etc. seems to be a kind of such defined logic. As well as human beings.

now, if life is logic, why sometimes it is too dificult to find it (logic is supposed to be simple)?

[michellemfry]

May I try to help:

Life is defined as a chronological series of physical, logical, and biological functions that have been established on Planet Earth of the Milky Way Galaxy in the Universe(s).

[justagermintheuniverse]

Does abutterfly remeber being a caterpillar? jow do we know that we have not survived life? maybe just another stage in life. Or maybe we are all just parts of one process developing into another. such a small thing as a bug or mouse cannot (even if it could think like us) comprehend where from this ball that i have thrown across the room has come. let alone the city, the continent, planet, solar system galaxy, univere and whatever we cannot comprehend that lies beyond.

So in this sense, does that make us there "gods" ? we are the all powerfull. We create so many things on earth. we also destroy. We can only try to explain things by what we know, yet what we know is really nothing at all. We can take a needle and inject iy in our viens, withdraw and analyze to the tiniest particle of our dna. Would the bible be written differently in these times? When people say god has talked to them now... is it recoreded as it is said to be in biblical times or are sometimes these people sent to asylums? are we floating in DNA of something else? Or prehaps we are an experiment gone aery of forgotten?

[mkirkpatrick]

Welcome J,to the toequest community,greetings from the UK to you,you pose some
very interesting questions,we all go through the butterfly-caterpillar phase!

regards michael.

[magic]

The purpose of life then as now has always continued to be less about getting there and more about remembering where you’ve come from.