‘Elan vital’ seems to predict that there won’t be things that are sort-of alive, like viruses; from what I’ve read about it it suggests that aliveness is all-or-nothing. It may also predict that things that are dead shouldn’t be able to be made to move by electrical stimulation of the nerves.
I’m in a very nitpicky mood today:
‘Elan vital’ seems to predict that there won’t be things that are sort-of alive, like viruses; from what I’ve read about it it suggests that aliveness is all-or-nothing. It may also predict that things that are dead shouldn’t be able to be made to move by electrical stimulation of the nerves.
I think you’re right. ‘Elan vital’ sounds like a falsified theory, not an unfalsifiable one.