do you believe in hylozoism?

Question

the doctrine that matter is inseparable from life, which is a property of matter.

if so, do you believe that every thing in the universe is alive in some way (animals, snow storms, high-backed chairs, rocks, etc.) or do you believe that everything is part of a single universal living organism?

or is it both of these things at the same time?

If you do not belive in hylozoism please explain why.

Answer 1

Everything in the universe is alive in some way and everything is part of a single universal living organism...you may say so that it is both these things at the same time, just as the heart and brain are living in a single living organism.
The basic element of Consciousness is common to everything.
Science today explains living and non-living in 2 different categories, discreetly pointing out on some distinguishable properties between the two groups, but it itself leaves a clue for us to say that all things have originated from a common source, and if we were to believe chemistry or genetics then chemicals will yield chemicals in reactions and descendants will have some characteristics of ascendants.
So even if we believe the world or universe to have originated from the BIG BANG, the products of it (the living and non-living, matter and life) cannot be different from the source from which they originated, and eventhough they may differ in properties, as chemicals do or descendants differ from ascendants on basis of mutation they have some common link to the source.
One might think that how can the seemingly lifeless things be 'alive'? To explain this, i take the example of gold and iron, they seem to be lifeless metals, but see how alive they are!
Men dig up mines to awaken gold from its deep slumber under the earth, and it venges them back, it robs people of their sleep in return!
They dig up quarries for iron-ore with sharp things, and see what iron is used to make; sharp digging tools!
Petrol, taken from the Earth's veins is like the earth's blood, the more human kind is sucking up this blood of earth, the more the smoke from this petrol is choking their own blood!
If these things were'nt alive this would not have been the case, the fact that they react means that they're alive.

So even if different metals are differing in their properties we still refer to them as a common group of 'metals' called chemicals, so even though the different properties of matter and life make them different they have something in common that makes them all ALIVE.
Different properties make things to be classified under different groups and similarities enable us to group them together.
It all depends on how we look at things. If we see the similarities we can see everything as Alive, and if we start looking at differences we shall be able to see them as different groups classified by science.

Answer 2

What evidence is there for this theory that a particle or a mass is part of a "single universal living organism"? A living organism is defined by science as a discrete being (its parts are in physical contact with one another) which has a metabolism (meaning it consumes energy and excretes metabolic wastes), a lifespan, and procreates. I find it hard to envision a chair doing any of these things. Of course if my chair began to sneak dinner scraps from the table, pooped, and birthed a baby chair, then I would revise my ideas.

Answer 3

In describing all matter, "lively" is more plausible than "alive". Matter is lively at the quantum scale, but at the scale of ordinary sized objects, the quantum effects cancel out, for the most part. What we call "life" is organized and self-preserving and in some manner autonomous. The distinction between matter and life isn't absolute, but it is real and significant.
___Did you own a pet rock as a kid?

Answer 4

I tend to see all of reality as being one thing. And that one thing is actually the product AND substance of that which created it. Therefore, there is no separation from the creator and the created, both being one reality. Now, that being said, the thing that differentiates one thing from another is a type of (for lack of a better word) intelligence all things posses. It is the amount of this intelligence that allows them to have their place in this reality. In other words, a rock has intelligence...it has just enough intelligence to be what it is...a rock. A greater or more complex thing can be said to have more 'intelligence' . This increases as things get more complex. Think about how much intelligence a planet has. This intelligence then increases until it encompasses all of reality and then becomes the ultimate intelligence, that which created it.

whoa.

Answer 5

Everything is alive, look at a rock extremely close up and you will find plenty of life stuff moving around even though the rock form is not. There is no Part of LIFE that is not ALIVE.

Answer 6

If it's trying to say that a rock is life, I disagree. Because life to me is separate from non-living matter. We have a distinction for a reason.
A rock does not have:
"growth through metabolism, reproduction, and the power of adaptation to environment through changes originating internally"

Answer 7

If everything is alive, what becomes of the concept itself? What does it mean, then, "alive"? What meaningful distinctions can be made with it? Saying everything is alive is like saying "everything is real". The idea becomes so general as to be vacuous, and then means nothing at all.

Answer 8

i think its both, its real, and some stuff arent