10. Lošinjski dani bioetike - Hrvatsko filozofsko društvo

with previously built parental role, which essentially changes relationship
between man and woman and their relationship to the community. Also,
social contacts and social empathy have a positive response to the physical
and mental health both of child and its parents. Therefore, it is necessary
to create a good level of interaction between the empathy of parents, close
family and the social community.
ANTON MLINAR
Science and Research Center, University of Primorska, Koper, Slovenia /
Znanstveno-istraživački centar, Primorsko sveučilište, Koper, Slovenija
LIFE AS A COGNITIVE PROCESS
If we look at the enormous variety of living organisms, we immediately
make an important discovery, namely that all biological life consists
of cells. The cell represents from the one point of view already a very developed
form of life, but, from the other point of view, the reductionist pattern
proves in a very effective way that the cell also represents a basic part
of each living being which allows us to think that all living beings are the
more or less complex sum of their parts – cells. This presentation focuses
not only on the structure of cellular life but also on the theory of life as a
cognitive process. The theory, grounded by Fritjof Capra, sees in the cell a
key response to the question what could be the relation between structure
of living being and its immediate functional system. The theory offers us
also an interesting mode of rejection of reductionist’s strategy which apparently
simplifies the cognition of life, but it does not recognize the factual
continuous accommodation of living beings through their functional
cognition. The theory also allows an extension of this viewpoint – that the
life is in fact a process of cognition – to the current debate on bioethics and
animal ethics.
ŽIVOT KAO KOGNITIVNI PROCES
Ako gledamo na iznimnu različitost živih bića, uviđamo nešto vrlo
važno, naime, da je sav biološki život sastavljen od stanica. Stanice predstavljaju,
s jedne strane, vrlo razvijen oblik života, a s druge strane, reduk-
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