?? You say that life is not contained in chemicals and substance and then you explain we have no idea what constitutes life or sparks it. It seems to me that "substance" is a pretty unspecific term. And BTW, in certain conditions, a couple chemicals are relatively inert, yet mix them and we can measure activity.Life is not contained in chemicals or substances. We have no idea what it takes to animate a collection of chemicals, to give it a consciousness. Is it a certain kind of energy? Or is it a product of an existing form of consciousness? We just don't know what is the secret ingredient that causes life to arise from the primordial soup.
lol Yeah, I hit a rock with another rock the other day and they both yelled "OW!". Anthropomorphising again are we?I think the Earth is a conscious and living organism - our Mother and she is the source of that secret ingredient.
You think? lolOf course, that cannot be scientifically proved except that quantum physics is coming close. In the native American view, the Earth is alive and all life on her is a web, all interconnected and interdependent. The web of life is, in the collective sense, one giant organism. We are but one small organ of that being. But I guess for some, the realization of that concept would require a leap of faith.
What you are doing is taking the "Gaia hypothesis" and suggesting that what the hypothesis postulates is alive when we aren't exactly sure what constitutes life. That is no different in essence than saying Wodin or Yahweh did it. It is definitely a leap of faith.