The purpose of death

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  1. river

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    My post # 39
     
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  3. Michael 345 New year. PRESENT is 72 years oldl Valued Senior Member

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    My smartphone is just not smart enough to show the numbers of the post which I understand are available for those using computers

    If you want me to check a post I am to lazy to count through the thread so will have to cut and paste
     
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  5. river

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    So do it
     
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  7. iceaura Valued Senior Member

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    That works better as an explanation of death than of failure to replicate - for starters because they aren't exact copies, but are instead the material from which selection is made, and they are the base for survival of the genes that structure the whole thing. That is, the more replications the more likely a really good variation will result, and selection have something to work with.
     
  8. paddoboy Valued Senior Member

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    Correction accepted.

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  9. DaveC426913 Valued Senior Member

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    Why would there be?
     
  10. Michael 345 New year. PRESENT is 72 years oldl Valued Senior Member

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    Clairvoyant - The living contacting the dead

    Tnayovrialc - The dead contacting the living?

    Cartoon from NT News Darwin Australia
     

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  11. darksidZz Valued Senior Member

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    I think the purpose of aging is to limit genetic issues over the species
     
  12. ajanta Registered Senior Member

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    To recycle

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    and when I think the soil is transforming
    into organic body with life but not gonna die then birthrate is linked to limited percentage of carbon on earth that is for another kind of ecosystem.
     
  13. DaveC426913 Valued Senior Member

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    That's just one run-on sentence. Sorry, I can't tell where one thought begins and one thought ends.
     
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  14. ajanta Registered Senior Member

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    Yes. Actually death is involved to food chain also and if they are not gonna die then they have to collect particles directly from soil for grow up.
     
  15. Michael 345 New year. PRESENT is 72 years oldl Valued Senior Member

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    Thoughtful

    But consider if people didn't die except by accident

    A system form's to keep population stable as you seem to suggest by a limitation of carbon

    The ageing of the people would help greatly with their knowledge

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  16. ajanta Registered Senior Member

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    But death is correct and logical for them who are made of ordinary particles or compounds than immortality.

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    Example as...

    Electromagnetic radiation is enough to decompose those things and EMR doesn't consider immortality.
     
  17. Michael 345 New year. PRESENT is 72 years oldl Valued Senior Member

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    Correct

    However it might be possible for a species to develop a internal repair system capable of repairing damage caused by EMR

    EMR has no consciousness so incapable of considering anything

    EMR operates according to the laws of physics

    A living repair system capable of repairing the damage caused by EMR would also have to operate according to the laws of physics

    I see no reason why that would not be possible

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  18. kx000 Valued Senior Member

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    Life is the basis of pleasure and love.
     
  19. origin Heading towards oblivion Valued Senior Member

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    Death is the universes way of telling you to slow down.
     
  20. timojin Valued Senior Member

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    Where did you got that wisdom
     
  21. timojin Valued Senior Member

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    Provided you have food, shelter and health
     
  22. karenmansker HSIRI Banned

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    Origin: Is that comment your opinion, a claim, or a scientific fact, supported by your actual communication with the universe. If you are referencing a source, perhaps you can provide a reference. 'Rules is rules, ya' know . . .' TIC (Tongue-in-Cheek humor!)
     
  23. joepistole Deacon Blues Valued Senior Member

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    Death is part of the evolutionary process. It's an integral part of the adaptation process. It order to adapt, a species needs to reproduce. Reproduction allows a species to adapt to changing environmental conditions. Insects are good at adaptation. They also have very short life spans. The two are related. Larger organisms may have longer life spans, but as a general rule it's much more difficult for them to adapt to changing environmental conditions because they reproduce less frequently. The potential exception to that is man. Mankind is on the verge of being able to manipulate its DNA and consciously change its DNA. Mankind is on the verge of being able to not rely upon random genetic changes as an adaptation strategy. That's huge. When that happens, death becomes obsolete.
     

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