The behavior/actions/spirit that defines a life versus anything else could be referred to as “vitalis”, “orgone”, or “life force”. Some still believe that the vitalis force/behavior that we call “life” is not an emergent force from more fundamental forces of physics, but an entirely separate force.
As an emergent force, it obviously exists. But as a physically separate force from the “forces” of fundamental physics (once properly understood), I don’t think so.
There is a branch within the vitalism (especially neovitalism) that claims that the phenomena of life are not explainable by physicochemical “laws” (rules) but have their own “laws” (rules) that can be put down to a psyche-like “force” (=> Psychovitalism) or explained by the “entelechy” (as I already said).
It is at least hard to believe that such a separate force exists, but that does not mean that it is not possible. Compare it, for instance, with the Aristotelian “entelechy”, although it is not exactly the same. To Goethe entelechy was “ein Stück Ewigkeit, das den Körper lebend durchdringt” (“a piece of eternity that gets lively through the body”).
Interestingly, the Fibonacci numbers show some noteworthly mathematical specific features:
Due to the relations to the previous and the following number growth in nature seems to follow an addition law. The Fibonacci numbers are directly associated with the golden cut. The further one progresses subsequently, the more the quotient of successive numbers approaches to the golden cut (1,6180339887…) - for example: 13:8=1.625; 21:13=1.6153846; 34:21=1.6190476; 55:34=1.6176471; 89:55=1.6181818; 144:89=1.617978; 233:144=1.6180556; … and so on). This approach is alternating - the quotients are alternately smaller and bigger than the golden cut (golden number, golden ratio):
The Fibonacci numbers are the sums of the „shallow“diagonals (shown in red) of Pascal’s triangle:
Say during a person’s years of formal education… studying up to multiple subjects going into double figures, wouldn’t that harvest a whole crop of philosophical influences on that person? from authors to artists to designers to etc.
A life philosophy can be based on multiple aspects of influence… Did you choose Goethe as one example?
"Do you know I’ve been sitting here thinking to myself: that if I didn’t believe in life, if I lost faith in the woman I love, lost faith in the order of things, were convinced in fact that everything is a disorderly, damnable, and perhaps devil-ridden chaos, if I were struck by every horror of man’s disillusionment – still I should want to live. Having once tasted of the cup, I would not turn away from it till I had drained it! At thirty though, I shall be sure to leave the cup even if I’ve not emptied it, and turn away – where I don’t know. But till I am thirty I know that my youth will triumph over everything – every disillusionment, every disgust with life. I’ve asked myself many times whether there is in the world any despair that could overcome this frantic thirst for life. And I’ve come to the conclusion that there isn’t, that is until I am thirty.”
― Fyodor Dostoyevsky, The Brothers Karamazov
IT may not be stretching a point to say that being sent to prison was the best thing that ever happened to Fyodor Dostoyevsky. The alternative, death by firing squad, was certainly less appealing. And most observers have agreed that the years Dostoyevsky spent in Siberian imprisonment and exile from 1850 to 1859 were beneficial to his development as a man, writer and thinker, transforming him from a rather vain and hypersensitive prima donna flushed with overnight literary success (following the publication of his Dickensian novel ‘‘Poor Folk’’) into a serious and confident artist. What Dostoyevsky gained in prison - a remarkable breadth of tragic vision and a painful new understanding of the violent, irrepressible human impulse toward self-expression - he later injected into the novels he started writing soon after returning to civilization: ‘‘Crime and Punishment,’’ ‘‘The Possessed,’’ ‘‘The Idiot’’ and ‘‘The Brothers Karamazov.’’ Dostoyevsky’s experiences in Siberia haunted him for the rest of his life and provided an inexhaustible stock of material that both inspired and terrified him. They also gave him lifetime membership in the distinguished club (still thriving, unfortunately) of Russian writers and intellectuals rewarded for their heretical political, philosophical or esthetic views with an unplanned sabbatical in the Eastern steppe. nytimes.com/1986/08/31/books … wanted=all
We studied the music but not the man, but studying the music meant that we had to delve into the man’s psyche… but only enough to understand the music.
Are you asking me or telling me that you’re good/well?
…so many influences/so little time, sayeth the current urban demographic… rendering them near impossible to unravel in thought or feeling.