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Poll: How many lives would you say constitute the Earth's biomass?
  • One: Gaia ftw
    21.5%
  • Traditional critter count
    50.5%
  • Number of cells
    11.2%
  • Number of "selfish genes"
    16.8%
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Your answer is ambiguous. Biology investigates causality. Are you talking about causality without consciousness or with consciousness?
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If the answer is former, there is only one causal source in the universe. If the answer is latter, each cell should be considered separate.
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In fact, each cell to be composed of even smaller constituents, going to sub-atomic particles. All are jivas in their own limited scope.
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Every scientific paradigm has a metaphysics. The current dominant paradigm has a metaphysics that concentrates all causality in the big bang
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