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...
| Published in: | Worldviews |
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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Brill
2013
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Worldviews
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phenomenology in biology
synthetic biology
philosophy of biology
definitions of life
perception of livingness
Husserl
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