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43. Kenneth Burke is a great unknown to me

Tue Jan 17, 2012, 05:49 PM

Jan 2012

But it seems to me that generally life is so self-centered (selfish genie?) that it finds life more interesting or more meaningful than non-life. But maybe that's just an ego-trip...

As for levels of complexity (a notion that is also subjective to some extent) I'm under the impression that life is actually defined as higher level of complexity than non-life. And at what level of complexity do the notions of interesting and meaningful arise?

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Anthropic principle tama Jan 2012 #6

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