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What is Life? My contention is that Life is the only system in the universe that is formed by something physical and something intrinsically non-physical, matte...
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What is Life? My contention is that Life is the only system in the universe that is formed by something physical and something intrinsically non-physical, matter and information written in a language with infinite possibilities.
The existence of any idea behind a word is determined by an essential absence of any physical property. The concepts needed for producing a form, the information, have no mass, no volume, no inertia, no weight, no density, no electrical charge, no spin, no color. They cannot be measured in our external world, neither in our interior, nor in any other part of the material universe. The information and the ideas are “nothing”. Zero. But exist.
Life is the only physical system that is formed by matter and written information, by something and nothingness, by mass and "missingness", by atoms and intangible information of ideas written in a book, the DNA. Moreover, Life is the only physical system that pursues the exchange and transmission of something non-physical, information and ideas.
With Life the universe reached a critical evolutionary stage: the development of the written language. It meant that information could be passed on, from generation to generation, through written books of DNA containing the concepts needed for producing life forms. This intangible information was not like the bits of information contained in the physical laws or in the physical features of the matter but, as it happens with the ideas written in any coded language, life information can be exchanged, combined or even radically modified to produce infinite results, unlimited new immaterial concepts and meanings.
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The value of a photo, the information that it contains, its beauty and its significance, are also features whose existence is determined by an essential absence of any physical property. Its beauty and meaning are 'nothing'. Zero. But exist. However, although the unique feature of any life being is its concrete physical form plus the intangible written information needed to produce that form, paradoxically the beauty of any life moment or form cannot be measured physically, neither described with words. Like (I hope) the one of this photo.
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Winter fertilisation in an oak forest at Tietar Valley, Spain. This valley is where came to die Carlos I of Spain and V of Germany, the Spanish Emperor who had under his control one of the biggest empires of all time. His Kingdom comprised most of Europe, a big part of South, Central and North America, the Caribean, Papúa, Philippines and part of Africa. In his fifties, the Emperor was ill and asked his experts which was the best place within his vast empire in terms of weather and natural environment. He was looking for a place not too wet, neither dry, not too hot, neither cold, with enough water and forests, but also with mountains and pleasant open valleys. After some discussions the experts concluded that this 'perfect' place was the Tietar Valley, at the foothills of Sierra de Gredos, in the center-west of Spain. So he decided that this was 'the' place for spending the last years of his life. Hence, he ordered the construction of a monastery In Yuste, in the Tietar Valley, and he lived there his last years.
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The existence of any idea behind a word is determined by an essential absence of any physical property. The concepts needed for producing a form, the information, have no mass, no volume, no inertia, no weight, no density, no electrical charge, no spin, no color. They cannot be measured in our external world, neither in our interior, nor in any other part of the material universe. The information and the ideas are “nothing”. Zero. But exist.
Life is the only physical system that is formed by matter and written information, by something and nothingness, by mass and "missingness", by atoms and intangible information of ideas written in a book, the DNA. Moreover, Life is the only physical system that pursues the exchange and transmission of something non-physical, information and ideas.
With Life the universe reached a critical evolutionary stage: the development of the written language. It meant that information could be passed on, from generation to generation, through written books of DNA containing the concepts needed for producing life forms. This intangible information was not like the bits of information contained in the physical laws or in the physical features of the matter but, as it happens with the ideas written in any coded language, life information can be exchanged, combined or even radically modified to produce infinite results, unlimited new immaterial concepts and meanings.
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The value of a photo, the information that it contains, its beauty and its significance, are also features whose existence is determined by an essential absence of any physical property. Its beauty and meaning are 'nothing'. Zero. But exist. However, although the unique feature of any life being is its concrete physical form plus the intangible written information needed to produce that form, paradoxically the beauty of any life moment or form cannot be measured physically, neither described with words. Like (I hope) the one of this photo.
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Winter fertilisation in an oak forest at Tietar Valley, Spain. This valley is where came to die Carlos I of Spain and V of Germany, the Spanish Emperor who had under his control one of the biggest empires of all time. His Kingdom comprised most of Europe, a big part of South, Central and North America, the Caribean, Papúa, Philippines and part of Africa. In his fifties, the Emperor was ill and asked his experts which was the best place within his vast empire in terms of weather and natural environment. He was looking for a place not too wet, neither dry, not too hot, neither cold, with enough water and forests, but also with mountains and pleasant open valleys. After some discussions the experts concluded that this 'perfect' place was the Tietar Valley, at the foothills of Sierra de Gredos, in the center-west of Spain. So he decided that this was 'the' place for spending the last years of his life. Hence, he ordered the construction of a monastery In Yuste, in the Tietar Valley, and he lived there his last years.
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