How Do We See That Something Is Living? Synthetic Creatures and Phenomenology of Perception*
The creation of synthetic life forms raises the question of what we mean when we say that a synthetic cell is “alive.” This paper analyzes the problem of aliveness both as an epistemological question (how can we know?) and as a phenomenological question (how can we perceive?). It introduces basic co...
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Worldviews
Year: 2013, Volume: 17, Issue: 1, Pages: 10-25 |
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phenomenology in biology
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definitions of life
perception of livingness
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