Quotes From Dekornick's 'The Hollow Universe'

Isabel Kliethermes Phil 2310 Spring 2024 Dr. Jamie Spiering 4/29/2024 Lifeless Forms? In this paper, I will explain and comment on a passage from DeKornick’s The Hollow Universe Chapter 3, “The Lifeless World of Biology” (pages 90-94). This passage contains his explanation and elaboration of his theory. DeKornick presents a compelling argument about the nature of life and its forms. He suggests that lifeless parts do not determine if something is living, and forms do not come from nature. His first argument is that tiny parts do not explain nature better than the whole. In fact, it creates a far more confusing environment to try to start from the miniscule parts because they do not make sense or seem to follow rules. DeKornick argues that life

It’s the complex interactions and functions of these parts that portray life. DeKornick’s assertion that minor parts cannot explain living, or that nature cannot create forms, challenges the conventional wisdom. DeKornick’s argument that the microscopic pieces do not better explain the whole is insightful. It emphasizes the importance of understanding the system as a whole, rather than focusing solely on its individual parts. I agree with him because it is a crucial lesson for fields like biology and ecology where the interaction of parts often determines the behavior of the whole system, so it should not be forgotten. The next point he discusses is that the tiniest parts do not even make sense. “Of the sciences of nature, physics is the most exact; but I have yet to meet a modern physicist who speaks with any such confidence about what he knows.” He is speaking of quantum mechanics in this particular statement. He is here noting that on the level of these particles, they do not follow traditional or even logical rules. This should imply that the more minute particles only confuse rather than clarify these forms of problems and do not clarify life or