Belinda wrote: ↑Tue Sep 06, 2022 11:01 am
henry quirk wrote: ↑Mon Sep 05, 2022 4:17 pm
Belinda wrote: ↑Mon Sep 05, 2022 4:12 pm
Any of the above.
People used to believe in the vital spark or life force.
Some of us atavists still do.
Biology says otherwise. For instance does a virus contain or have a life force? Or for instance does your brain contain or have a life force if it's kept alive artificially?
Does a man have or contain a life force if his environment of breathable air, food, and water, is separated from him?
There is no such thing as a "life-force".
The universe is the way it is and humans develop systems of description to help us communicate ideas to each other.
It was long thought that "cold" was a force of nature, in distinction to "heat". Two competing forces.
It took a long time to figure out that, whilst it was possible to describe the the world in terms of amount of heat, it was no so for cold. Aside from a theoretical idea of 0 Kelvin, everything has the quality of heat, and nothing has the quality of cold. There are many other examples of fake ideas; Sanguine, Coleric for example. Ideas from discredited sciences of the past.
In a similar way "life-force" is not a property but a mythical idea like "soul" or "spirit". It's about as useful as "Aquarian" or "Piscean" for describing reality; leading to misconceptions.