{"id":159815,"date":"2023-03-08T09:24:18","date_gmt":"2023-03-08T15:24:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/03\/things-i-have-sort-of-changed-my-mind-on-2-life-and-consciousness"},"modified":"2023-03-08T09:24:18","modified_gmt":"2023-03-08T15:24:18","slug":"things-i-have-sort-of-changed-my-mind-on-2-life-and-consciousness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/03\/things-i-have-sort-of-changed-my-mind-on-2-life-and-consciousness","title":{"rendered":"Things I have (sort of) changed my mind on (2): Life and consciousness"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/things-i-have-sort-of-changed-my-mind-on-2-life-and-consciousness.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Here\u2019s another thing I have changed my mind on. Well, sort of. I used to <a class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/giulioprisco.blogspot.com\/2009\/08\/carricos-mysticism-exposed.html\" rel=\"noopener ugc nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">make fun<\/a> of \u201cvitalism\u201d and <a class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/giulioprisco.blogspot.com\/2009\/12\/one-of-most-idiotic-people-alive-on.html\" rel=\"noopener ugc nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">trade insults<\/a> with my favorite archenemy <a class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/amormundi.blogspot.com\/2009\/04\/giulio-prisco-may-be-one-of-most.html\" rel=\"noopener ugc nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">Dale Carrico<\/a>. Now I must repent or at least add important qualifications.<\/p>\n<p>Vitalism is currently <a class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Vitalism\" rel=\"noopener ugc nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">defined by Wikipedia<\/a> as \u201cthe belief that living organisms are fundamentally different from non-living entities because they contain some non-physical element or are governed by different principles than are inanimate things.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>If we eliminate a few words from this definition we are left with a statement that I don\u2019t disagree with:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here\u2019s another thing I have changed my mind on. Well, sort of. I used to make fun of \u201cvitalism\u201d and trade insults with my favorite archenemy Dale Carrico. Now I must repent or at least add important qualifications. Vitalism is currently defined by Wikipedia as \u201cthe belief that living organisms are fundamentally different from non-living [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":661,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-159815","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biological","category-neuroscience"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/159815","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/661"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=159815"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/159815\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=159815"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=159815"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=159815"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}