Discussion+Questions+(Vernadsky)

Do the distinctions between inert and living bodies hold true to this day? What about viruses? Page 4: "Basically man cannot be separated from [the biosphere]; it is only now that this indissolubility begins to appear clearly and in precise terms before us...Actually no living organism exists on earth in a sate of freedom. All organisms are connected indissolubly and uninterruptedly, first of all through nutrition and respiration, with the circumambient material and energetic medium." "Living matter, by weight, constitutes an insignificant part of our planet." What does this mean? How did the World Wars change science? Life and living matter: why is this an important distinction to make? Should scientists be concerned with philosophical ideas?

Noosphere: the reconstruction of the biosphere in the interests of freely thinking humanity as a single totality. What do we think of the Noosphere?