2006-09-05 03:32:34 · 20 answers · asked by Henry 5 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
There's no such thing. Life is a summation electrochemical reaction, nothing more. When the chemicals no longer maintain that reaction in a homeostatic manner, then you have illness. When the flow of chemical energy no longer suffices to overcome entropy, you have aging, when the flow of chemical energy stops, you have death.
This idea that "well the mind is energy and thus has to continue on SOMEWHERE" is as bogus as saying that, "I had a program running on my computer, I deleted it off the hard drive, then shut off the computer" and asserting that because the program was in memory when I turned off the computer, it must still exist... somewhere. The mind is a function of the brain, when the brain dies, the mind just stops.
2006-09-05 03:39:12 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
In a word? "Energy." Without it, your lights won't turn on and your car won't run. Same thing for animating any living creature including human beings. Now, just what is this energy force? It's been called many things including the soul and spirit. But whatever it actually is, without it, you'd be dead.
2006-09-05 10:39:36 · answer #2 · answered by gjstoryteller 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Essentially a fiction. We are alive, a fact that comes from the complex interactions of all of the electrochemical processes in our bodies.
Because we are immersed in words and concepts, we find ourselves unwilling to accept the fact that life is a product of those natural processes, and instead want it to be "something more". So we say that besides all of those processes (whose material and energetic properties can be and have been measured), there is some other non-measurable thing going on. Of course those who insist that it can't be measured never address the rather obvious problem in claiming knowledge of something that can't be measured.
2006-09-05 10:37:38 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
A bad Science Fiction movie about 10 years old....
2006-09-05 10:34:24 · answer #4 · answered by white61water 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
There's no such thing as a life force. Life is a complex series of electro-chemical interactions that are individually ordinary.
2006-09-05 10:37:03 · answer #5 · answered by lenny 7 · 3⤊ 1⤋
It's what you breath in, what you breath out is death all together makes the circle of life & death which could be seen as an life force
without life there is no death and without death there is no life
2006-09-05 10:43:13 · answer #6 · answered by suntravelfree 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
This answers that:
Hebrews 9:26-28 (King James Version)
26For then must he often have suffered since the foundation of the world: but now once in the end of the world hath he appeared to put away sin by the sacrifice of himself.
27And as it is appointed unto men once to die, but after this the judgment:
28So Christ was once offered to bear the sins of many; and unto them that look for him shall he appear the second time without sin unto salvation.
2006-09-05 10:35:19 · answer #7 · answered by Investigation Specialist 4 · 0⤊ 3⤋
Something from Starwars.
2006-09-05 10:38:30 · answer #8 · answered by Siu02rk 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
For life in our solar system, it is the sun.
2006-09-05 10:34:48 · answer #9 · answered by Left the building 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
mass X acceleration
2006-09-05 10:40:39 · answer #10 · answered by BowtiePasta 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋