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. . . but I'd not say that you've presented a case for a chaos/order dichotomy being the simplest/most likely explanation for life. (Not the least reason for which is that you're using a fuzzy, dubious chaos/order distinction in the first place.) Out of everything you wrote, this part of your post ...

You claimed that you did present a logically valid argument for why life would follow, or be implied, by an order/chaos relationship. I said that that is precisely what you did not do. (Hence why "order/chaos dichotomy, hence life" is a non-sequitur.) So I told you to specify where in you...

What is the point of existence to something that doesn't need to exist. I'm trying to gently point out it doesn't need to be. Nothing missed, nothing lost. It's not circular at all. You just don't want to see the conclusion of the reasoning, or cannot do so. On reflection, I don't think you'll get ...

You're being too easy on yourself. I don't agree that your theory even gives a general answer, that it even explains the underlying forces, and certainly not the "rationale" (which implies sentience, hence why I put that in quotation marks). You're basically just saying, "'order/chao...

Honestly, I was expecting a load of crap, but I see you've really put some thought into this, and not pushing an agenda. Nice. One thing I'm wondering is, where does consciousness fit into all this? I ask because I tend to ignore the universe, and focus on our awareness of it. That is, if I don't e...

Yeah. How about a brief synopsis of your conclusion? I don't want to read it, only to find out I exist to enjoy ice cream or something. This is a copy and paste of an answer that I wrote on Quora for the question "Why does life exist?": To understand why life exists, one must change one's...

"I describe the relationship between order and chaos as a tension, like a game of tug-of-war. Regarding the dice-rolling analogy, the "pull" that causes the dice to want to produce random results is the pull of chaos, and the "pull" that causes the dice to want to produce a...

Back in March, I published a book entitled The Explanation of Life on Amazon. In the book, I provide my own detailed theory that answers one of the biggest inquiries in philosophy: why do we exist? To anyone interested, I have just published this same book on Smashwords. It is now free to download o...

I address this topic in a thread of mine, found here: viewtopic.php?f=16&t=19009

I have recently published an Amazon Kindle ebook entitled "The Explanation of Life" (found here: http://www.amazon.com/The-Explanation-Life-Mysterio448-ebook/dp/B01D5HMONK?ie=UTF8&*Version*=1&*entries*=0 ). As the title suggests, I propose an explanation for our existence. I propos...

The book presents a theory to explain why we exist. The theory revolves around the concept that order and chaos are not actually separate forces but are intermingled to form a primal duality comparable to the duality of things like space and time, electricity and magnetism, or energy and matter. He...

. I like that idea and, for the most part, I overwhelmingly agree with you. ...for your own benefit, could you incorporate the ebook into a short article & troll it to some online magazines - like PhilosophyNow ? In this age of an individual's attention being THE MOST VALUABLE commodity on eart...

. No offense is meant - could you please describe the essence of the main point of the book in a sentence or two? The book presents a theory to explain why we exist. The theory revolves around the concept that order and chaos are not actually separate forces but are intermingled to form a primal du...

Although a little bug so far is with the idea that using the term 'force' is an explanation of anything as personally I don't think it has any more meaning than the term 'energy', other than just the physicists meaning 'we have no idea'. I use the word "force" instead of "energy"...

So, I was just wondering. Has anyone read my book yet, or read a good portion of it? If so, what are your thoughts about it?