The dead squid dances. Is electrochemistry all there is, or maybe something else is the…sauce of life?
Philosophy Wire by Spiros Kakos [2011-08-03]: A dead octopus (the title of the video is obviously false) starts moving like a live one when a sauce containing salt is poured onto it. Our lives are based on elektrochemical reactions and the octopus seems to actually be alive! (some claim that it is actually alive in this video, but anyway this does not affect the main point - the same phenomenon happens with frog legs – see here) But it is not... Or is it? Can "life" be just electrochemistry? Can what each of us is feeling every day as "I" be a series of ion exchanges? To slightly paraphrase Leibniz's mind experiment, if we "get into" a brain we will not find anywhere its "owner" and the only thing we will see will be cells... And perhaps some ions from the squid we just ate...
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