عنوان

How Do We See That Something Is Living? Synthetic Creatures and Phenomenology of Perception

شماره

LA129578

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انگلیسی

عنوان اصلي

How Do We See That Something Is Living? Synthetic Creatures and Phenomenology of Perception

نام عام مواد

[Article]

نام نخستين پديدآور

Christoph Rehmann-Sutter

محل نشرو پخش و غیره

Leiden

نام ناشر، پخش کننده و غيره

Brill

متن يادداشت

The creation of synthetic life forms raises the question of what we mean when we say that a synthetic cell is "alive." This paper analyzes the problem of aliveness both as an epistemological question (how can we know?) and as a phenomenological question (how can we perceive?). It introduces basic concepts that can be used in a phenomenological analysis of the "givenness" of life and argues that aliveness can only be seen with reference to the experiences of the observer as him/herself living. Life is therefore inherently ambiguous. When perceiving other life forms, we are aware of our own life. In order to develop a concept of the "other life" of a synthetic bacterium, we need to be aware of projecting perceptual evidence of our own life onto that of other species. The concept of "other life" can address a very basic layer: seeing another life form's being-in-the-world as (1) a center of its own spontaneity, (2) a particular way of being in time that can be described as duration, and (3) as a system of processes that contain their own sense as practices. The creation of synthetic life forms raises the question of what we mean when we say that a synthetic cell is "alive." This paper analyzes the problem of aliveness both as an epistemological question (how can we know?) and as a phenomenological question (how can we perceive?). It introduces basic concepts that can be used in a phenomenological analysis of the "givenness" of life and argues that aliveness can only be seen with reference to the experiences of the observer as him/herself living. Life is therefore inherently ambiguous. When perceiving other life forms, we are aware of our own life. In order to develop a concept of the "other life" of a synthetic bacterium, we need to be aware of projecting perceptual evidence of our own life onto that of other species. The concept of "other life" can address a very basic layer: seeing another life form's being-in-the-world as (1) a center of its own spontaneity, (2) a particular way of being in time that can be described as duration, and (3) as a system of processes that contain their own sense as practices.

تاريخ نشر

2013

توصيف ظاهري

10-25

عنوان

Worldviews: Global Religions, Culture, and Ecology

شماره جلد

17/1

شماره استاندارد بين المللي پياييندها

1568-5357

اصطلاح موضوعی

definitions of life

اصطلاح موضوعی

Husserl

اصطلاح موضوعی

perception of livingness

اصطلاح موضوعی

phenomenology in biology

اصطلاح موضوعی

philosophy of biology

اصطلاح موضوعی

synthetic biology

مستند نام اشخاص تاييد نشده

Christoph Rehmann-Sutter

شماره بازیابی

10.1163/15685357-01701002

نام الکترونيکي

فرمت انتشار

p

نوع ماده

[Article]

کد کاربرگه

275578

سطح دسترسي

a

تكميل شده

Y