the life adapts (by surviving) to fit the processes available
I have a hard time refuting that, but life doesn't just seem to "survive" it seems to shape. I guess my major disagreement is that lifeforms and Life are not the same. I use Life to indicate the collective processes as opposed to little elle lifeforms, the individual living entities. This is much like the differentiation of tissues that are in you and me. I'm not a brain, liver, etc. I'm the collection of these semi-autonomous activities. It is through the communication and coordination of these subprocesses that I rise above the slime and ooze to sentience.
If you look at the Earth, is IT alive? I think, using my organ analogy that, yes, it is. Can we comprehend it? Less than my brain can comprehend "me", IMO, because we are further removed. How much does my toenail know about me?
But that is where I've tread into belief. It is a belief based upon observations and certain metrics (like the prevalence of the 1/f), but still a (possibly unwarranted) extrapolation. The Earth could be truly mindless, but it doesn't seem to be (again,IMO). We know that even plants can communicate with one another (telegraph vine). |
