Impermanence And Life

[SalixIncendium]

Yet life continues.

I think by "life" you must mean some relatively high-level abstraction. Surely you do not mean the bacterium on the top of the period at the end of this sentence who happens to be winking at us, do you? For concrete, tangible, living things -- as opposed to life in the abstract -- are constantly being born, changing, and dying, are they not?

I mean an ongoing process. When we or any other organism dies, there most certainly be another to replace us.

I would suggest that to see that "ongoing process" as continuous, and therefore unitary, is to see it through a lens of abstraction.

Call it what you will, it is a fact that life is an ongoing process taking place on a sphere of rock somewhere in the Universe--conscious and evolving.

I can't agree with your interpretation of that "ongoing process". I'll leave it at that.

Your exchange got me thinking about time and perception.

From the perspective of a person here in this reality, time is linear. Everything might appear as ongoing. Therefore, it might stand to reason that it's an "ongoing process."

But would this ongoing process come to an end just as it began? Or is this perceived time cyclical?

If it is cyclical, @Salty Booger does have a point that it could be on going. If time is linear, than @Sunstone would have a point saying that everything is impermanent, and therefore ends.

But what if time is is illusory as a result of the limitations of our perception? What then?


If the doors of perception were cleansed then everything would appear to man as it is, infinite. ~ William Blake

 

[syo]

The gods don't change. They are immortal.

 

[WalterTrull]

I think by "life" you must mean some relatively high-level abstraction.

Yeah, I think we are definitely a relatively high-level abstraction