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Matter, Life, Consciousness, etc.: Second Addendum to Important Things
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"What was life? No one knew.
It was undoubtedly aware of itself,
so soon as it was life;
but it did not know what it was."
Thomas Mann
The Magic Mountain
(1924)
In June 2024, while working my way through Thomas Mann's seemingly interminable novel The Magic Mountain (a project started six weeks earlier), I encountered his multipage discourse on "life." It left me astonished. One hundred years earlier, in 1924, Mann eloquently presented the fundamental questions about life that we are confronting ...