The Essence of Life in Context of Biological Information

Proceedings of the Xxii World Congress of Philosophy 44:45-51 (2008)
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The main purpose of the paper is to justify the thesis that the presence of biological information is conditional for existence and persistence of life. We will begin with the notion of biological information. In this proposition information is identified with impact, and it is shown the dependence of its location and functioning on the level of organization of animate matter. In accordance with a suggestion of Thomas Aquinas, it seems that precisely information is the reason for the appearance of socalled immanent activities where new life appears.

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