Can you tell apart the living substance and non-living substance or can you exactly state the point where non-living turns into a living, soil turning into a plant. Well, you can try but won’t reach anywhere (a challenge perhaps). Sages of the past said that either you have to say the entire universe is a living object or non-living. They say life is life, you can not go tagging this and that. Well, I guess one can not convert a non-living material into a living material or vice versa. So in this little dilemma, where does our thoughts and memories stand. Are they living or non-living Things?
A thought rise in our consciousness, it stays, then it dissipates. Born, live and die. So a thought could be called a living thing after-all. At any point in life, our memories creates → our perception of things creates → thoughts in that instant creates → behaviour, response, mood… creates → habits and impulses at last (after some million cycles). This, my friends, is the result of our lifetime investment (mainly subconscious). Now, imagine at some time in the day someone tells you “change thy habit”.|| What the ****! right?
The problem is, no one tells you the thoughts and habits you cultivated over years should not be discarded but should be caressed, for they are your Living creation. Maybe some habits are like an unwanted child (Ain’t no condoms in meta dimensions). But in the end, it is a living thing and this is the reason why people have trouble giving up their habits. Many go haywire while pushing to change themselves. According to physics, you need to apply the same amount of energy to stop the inertia which we previously used to set it (yeah so what I am suggesting Newton’s laws of motion in metaphysics, grow up;)
Point is, the habits so formed by million cycles of thoughts should need the same effort to overcome them. (I guess)
It is not correct to talk only in the terms of living and non living. There could easily be other categories to categorize things. Some discovered or needed to be discovered. But yeah, whatever.
Footnote :- (cometh from being a Socrates fan)
A philosopher’s job is to start from scratch put layers and layers of truth, each supported with logic and reasoning, making a pyramid with the top holding a conclusion. A philosopher also mentions further possibilities that need to be explored which can throw the conclusion invalid (Thus devaluating ones own prior efforts and leaving space for further discussion).
