Vitalism used in a sentence

Vitalism in a sentence as a noun

Hans Driersch thought this evidence of some kind of vitalism in nature.

That's a bit of a false dichotomy, the implication that one of either vitalism or Soylent must be true.

I read it more as "vitalism is false, therefore, assertions against Soylent via vitalism are false," which seems good.

"natural" is very much like the discredited theory of vitalism.

Recall for example that only 100 years ago many or most people adhered to "vitalism" ie the view that living things contained an "elan vital" which distinguished them from inorganic matter.

The dailygalaxy article makes it sound like this phenomenon is completely baffling to scientists - my first thought as I read it was "vitalism", they seemed to be saying that the sequence recognition just happens by magic.

Naturopathy is a hodge-podge of mostly unscientific treatment modalities based on vitalism and other prescientific notions of disease.

It is a way to avoid wasting the good fortune of the intuition of forming useful hypothesis, and avoiding the waste demonstrably fruitless intuitions.> some credit has to be given to those that are rightBut vitalism is so vague as to be untestable, and justifies no useful models.

My inchoate thoughts:When you study, say, biology, you'll probably learn about all the wrong turns that very smart people made along the road to where we currently stand: self-moving principles in Aristotle; vitalism; spontaneous generation; enzymes as living organism; and many many more.

And a remarkable number of critiques of AI by very insightful people come down to a kind of vitalism - come down to a long, round-about way of saying "robots just don't that special something".And, of course, humans so far have failed in producing a wide range of human-like behaviors in robots and programs.