But I think that the meaning of life is the ideals we impose upon it, what we demand of it. Or is the question, ‘What is the meaning (purpose) of life?’ That’s a real tough one. It is not cognition that determines life, then: it is rather proliferation and maturation towards a state of death and death occurs only to living substances. Computers are non-living because even though they can cognize, they do not develop biologically (grow), and cannot produce offspring.
Can we say that viruses, for example, are cognizant? Yes, insofar as they react to stimuli but they are alive essentially because they reproduce and grow. Life is anything that grows and eventually dies, i.e., ceases to proliferate and be cognizant. The crucial difference between life and non-life (or non-living things) is that life uses energy for physical and conscious development. Life is the aspect of existence that processes, acts, reacts, evaluates, and evolves through growth (reproduction and metabolism). SUBSCRIBE NOW Question of the Month What Is Life? The following answers to this fundamental question each win a random book.
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