why river is a non living thing although it flows or moves
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Explanation:
First of all let me give you an example of water as a liquid.
I know that:
In order for water to be a living thing it needs to pass the four tests listed below. ( Got this from my 7th grade science book)
1. All life forms contain deoxyribo nucleic acid, which is called DNA.
2. All life forms have a method by which they take energy from the surroundings, and convert it into energy that helps them live.
3. All life forms can sense changes in their surroundings and respond to those changes.
4. All life forms reproduce.
In traditional Concepts water can't reproduce, can't take in energy to make it live, and does not have DNA. In order to make be classified as a living thing, it can't even not pass one test; it has to pass all four.
Nonliving things do not move by themselves, grow, or reproduce. They exist in nature or are made by living things.
Also according to Heisenberg, it said "What we observe is not nature itself, but nature exposed to our method of questioning.” Water is not a living thing by the measures that are most accepted by scientific inquiry. However, water cannot be said to be a material substance alone. Water's interactions with all biotic and abiotic elements in any given environment both shapes those elements and is shaped by them. Several scholars working on water have proposed that water is a hybrid, i.e. that water is a natural and cultural element at the same time. In this way, water can be seen as having agency, and also in being much more important to the political, economic, and social domains of post-modern life than more conventional ways of understanding it as H2O, a material object.
An alternative way to understand water is through Process Thought, which comes from the work of Alfed North Whilehead. ANW proposed that our ways of conventional knowing reality were based in understanding atoms and cells, and plants, animals and people as static, fixed beings. He proposed a different metaphysic, i.e. that the world was comprised of entitites (which are like atoms, and people, trees, mounains are complex agregates of entities). Entities are forever arising-exiting-perishing, and are therefore said to exist as processes. Human beings are highly complex "society of entities" and therefore at any moment, many parts of our bodies are emerging, existing, and then perishing. Therefore, we can think of ourselves not as static beings, but as beings in continual process. He called his new metaphysic Process Thought.
Water can be thought of as a process. It is forever moving and changing states (gas-liquid-solid), and continually dissolves other substances into itself, then shedding those substances as it moves through plants or land or people (this is how plants get many nutrients, and also how we get oxygen to our intenal organs and glucose to muscles, etc). Water is processional.
So, if you take the Newtonian-Quantum metaphycics as the most accurate understanding of reality, water is neither alive or dead, and therefore is very unlike human beings. But if you take Process as your metaphysic, then water is very like human beings and all other entities on the planet. I believe that water would be thought of as what ANW called an "actual occasion”.
Hope that this is helpful. At the very least, that it expanded some of your epistomological definitions.
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