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WovenGems

(776 posts)

22. Life = Biological Machine

Reply to demwing (Original post)

Sat Aug 31, 2013, 09:40 AM

Aug 2013

Foods converted to energy and waste expelled. What's life ain't hard to define at all. Fire is a chemical reaction, not life.

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How do Spiders Learn to Spin Webs? [View all] demwing Aug 2013 OP

I thought they just watch videos on the World Wide Web... n/t PoliticAverse Aug 2013 #1

LOL Skittles Aug 2013 #2

funny demwing Aug 2013 #4

That's where I have learned to do just about everything. cbayer Aug 2013 #5

This sounds quite Jungian. cbayer Aug 2013 #3

instinct is genetically hardwired behavior.... mike_c Aug 2013 #6

where else but at spider school gopiscrap Aug 2013 #7

Never mind that, how did they learn to eat like that? rug Aug 2013 #8

I read this quote one time. silverweb Aug 2013 #9

It's what hydrogen atoms do... pokerfan Aug 2013 #13

Beautiful. silverweb Aug 2013 #15

thanks for the quote! demwing Aug 2013 #16

One of the physicians i work with looks just Carl Sagan, except he has shoulder lenght hair. darkangel218 Aug 2013 #21

"... if life can be reduced to 'the behaviors of a complex system' ..." Jim__ Aug 2013 #10

Grandmother Spider teaches them, okasha Aug 2013 #11

We don't have a complete answer edhopper Aug 2013 #12

Either you missed the money line "It also doesn't mean that "God" taught spiders how to spin webs." demwing Aug 2013 #14

Being snide edhopper Aug 2013 #17

Well, first of all you have crossing universe problems with your scenario. Goblinmonger Aug 2013 #24

as interesting as most edhopper Aug 2013 #35

No kidding Goblinmonger Aug 2013 #36

as far as superpowers go edhopper Aug 2013 #37

I would guess the best way to learn web spinning techniques would be to watch a priest. DrewFlorida Aug 2013 #18

now that's a sharp answer demwing Aug 2013 #19

IMHO, yes, we do come just preprogrammed computers. darkangel218 Aug 2013 #20

Hate to break this to you, but humans are animals, okasha Aug 2013 #25

I was refering to all the other animals aside from the human species. darkangel218 Aug 2013 #26

You're still wrong. okasha Aug 2013 #27

So how am i wrong? darkangel218 Aug 2013 #28

You are wrong in your statement that okasha Aug 2013 #29

Preprogrammed instincts dont exclude new behavior learning!!! darkangel218 Aug 2013 #30

From your post #20. okasha Aug 2013 #34

You can take a kitten who was bottle fed and grew up only with humans. That cat will hund down mice darkangel218 Aug 2013 #31

I just said that. okasha Aug 2013 #32

Babies come with pre-programmed instints... Bay Boy Aug 2013 #33

Life = Biological Machine WovenGems Aug 2013 #22

"What's life ain't hard to define at all" -- that's not a consensus opinion demwing Aug 2013 #23