No, not necessarily but language is the filter that affects our ability to "perceive them” rationally. What I am referring to however would be something like a "life force".
Life force is NOT something that can be defined quantitatively and qualitatively because it simply doesn't exist anywhere along the electromagnetic spectrum. Hence the use of the word "force” is a misnomer but that said then: "what is life?"
Let's ask a different question, is "motive” a measure of "will” and is this the essential unit of sentience, life, and maybe even the "unifying field"?
I am not saying it is, I am saying that language has a number of built in traps related to "how we perceive" such that the use of math is practical for creating a more objective (universalized) perspective, but this doesn't make math the material either. But that is an intriguing concept in itself.
What distinguishes some forms of matter from others as being alive?
I suspect something like this is occurring at the level of space/time and saying "Life Force" is not identifiable, neither means that it doesn't exist, nor that "some things" aren't alive but it most certainly does force some inquiry into ideas that we take for granted and as primary to all we understand.
I will be trying to do this elsewhere more substantively but here is a thought I have been mulling of late: Does the polarity of charge create a natural basic algorithm that creates a quintessential binary logic that imparts a quality of basic organization to all matter that makes life possible?
If this were true then a lot of other questions are raised, actually many more than answered, but I do find the concept intriguing, because it describes a “conceptual unit” and a different kind of relativity that may in fact contain all we do measure and perceive within its own matrix of convoluted Super Strings composed not so much of basic matter but basic “ideas”.
I hope my musings are amusing
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