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CACOR Live | James Thornton | Why is there Life? | 8 Jul 2026 13:30 EST

July 8 @ 13:30 - 15:00 EDT

CACOR Members and Associates are invited to the following CACOR Live presentation:

Speaker: James Thornton

Subject: Why is there Life?

Time: 8 Jul 2026 13:30 Eastern Time (US and Canada)

(This presentation will be recorded and posted on our public YouTube channel within 48 hours afterwards!)

Members can pick up the live connection (Zoom) information at:  Canadian Association for the Club of Rome – CACOR Live: James Thornton – Why is there Life?

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Summary:

Theoretical and experimental research on the origins of life focus on how life evolved. A second order question currently being explored is: Why is there life? Exploring the mechanisms creating animate out of inanimate matter helps to advance our understanding of why there is life by elucidating the driving force for advancing complexity in the universe. Through this approach, incite is gained into life’s apparent teleonomy and unique characteristics. This is a synthetic work employing what is already known about the physical universe to propose a plausible account of why there is life.

Biography:

James received his medical degree from The Ohio State University School of Medicine. Residency training followed in general surgery, neurosurgery, vascular surgery, cardiac and thoracic surgery at University Hospitals of Cleveland, Ohio, and cardiac surgery at the Cleveland Clinic. He has been in the practice since 1986. An avocation is the nature of life.

Links:

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CACOR YouTube www.youtube.com/@canadianassociationforthec7885

 

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