What makes life vital (Introduction)

by Balance_Maintained , U.S.A., Saturday, March 07, 2015, 05:13 (3549 days ago) @ David Turell

David: The other issue in live and dead animals is the availability of the information in the genome. This is really what creates life. The animal is dead because it can no longer access the life-running information. All the processes are stopped. In resuscitation failed organs (heart and brain) are supported until they can reacquire access to the information that runs life. Look at this quote:->David: I couldn't say it better. The emergence of life from the materials in living beings is due to the information in the codes of the genome and in all the modifiers of the genome complex. The Darwin folks seem very reluctant to get into the information issue, because recognition of the importance of that information is a direct threat to a mechanistic chance process of evolution being the correct interpretation. -
I know I am hit or miss on this conversation with my schedule lately, but I think you kind of missed the mark here. Information does not create life any more than the mechanical processes do. Even if you had all of the information, and all of the necessary mechanics in place, you would still have nothing but a corpse. Without that penultimate 'spark' of life, our bio-mechanical machinery is not alive. That is ultimately where all of the reductionalist/naturalist theories fail. It is not that they can't explain the machinery, it's that they can't explain the spark.

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What is the purpose of living? How about, 'to reduce needless suffering. It seems to me to be a worthy purpose.