Life Is Not a Machine or a Ghost: The Naturalistic Origin of Life's Organization and Goal-Directedness, Consciousness, Free Will, and Meaning

Q1 Arts and Humanities

The Journal of Ayn Rand Studies Pub Date : 2023-04-07 DOI:10.5325/jaynrandstud.23.1-2.0218

Marsha Familaro Enright

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Abstract

ABSTRACT:Due to a widespread belief in mechano-reductionism, most intellectuals reject the idea that nonconscious living beings act toward goals. Proposing otherwise is mostly rejected as unscientific anthropomorphizing or necessitating appeals to a supernatural power. This false dichotomy has stymied biology and its related sciences. Herein, I present a new naturalistic gestalt on the nature of life—one based on facts and evidence. It incorporates Ludwig von Bertalanffy's and Arthur Koestler's theories of systems and hierarchies with the ideas of Aristotle, Hans Jonas, and Ayn Rand, to identify fundamental formulations on the nature of life, consciousness, free will, and meaning.

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生命不是机器，也不是幽灵:生命组织与目标导向、意识、自由意志与意义的自然起源

摘要:由于机械还原论的广泛信仰，大多数知识分子拒绝接受无意识生物朝着目标行动的观点。其他建议大多被拒绝，因为不科学的拟人化或需要诉诸超自然力量。这种错误的二分法阻碍了生物学及其相关科学的发展。在这里，我提出了一种新的自然主义的生命本质格式塔-基于事实和证据。它结合了路德维希·冯·伯塔朗菲和亚瑟·凯斯特勒的系统和等级理论，以及亚里士多德、汉斯·乔纳斯和安·兰德的思想，以确定关于生命、意识、自由意志和意义的本质的基本公式。

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The Journal of Ayn Rand Studies Arts and Humanities-Literature and Literary Theory

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