List of life forms
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This article is about a thing that is living or alive. For other uses, see Lifeform (disambiguation).
A life form is an entity or being that is living or alive.[1][2] This is a list of articles that relate to physical, hypothetical, alleged, religious, or fictional life forms.
In process philosophy, objects in the world or universe are layered or tiered in complexity.[3] Living things are difficult to define,[4] but life forms can be considered to be the most complex entities in the arena or environment in which they exist.[5] As in process philosophy, this article brings together in a holistic manner life forms from the diverse human intuitions found in experiences that include the ethical, religious, philosophical, scientific, and aesthetic.[6]
Scientific [edit]
- Animal
- Alpha taxonomy
- Biochemistry
- Biological classification
- Biology
- Carbon-based life
- Eusociality
- Evolutionary biology
- Extremophiles
- Fossil
- Fungus
- Human
- Life
- Metamorphosis
- Microorganism
- Mimicry
- Organism
- Parasitism
- Paleontology
- Person
- Plant
- Symbiosis
- Water, effects on life
Hypothetical life [edit]
- Astrobiology
- Astroecology
- Carbon chauvinism
- Extraterrestrial life, hypothetical life that exists outside Earth
- Hypothetical types of biochemistry
- Iron-sulfur world theory
- Life on Mars
- Non-cellular life
- Panspermia
- Planetary habitability
- RNA world hypothesis
- Search for Extra-Terrestrial Intelligence (SETI)
- Shadow biosphere
- Silicon-based life
- Ur-organism
Also:
- Cultural impact of extraterrestrial contact
- Communication with Extraterrestrial Intelligence (CETI)
- Messaging to Extra-Terrestrial Intelligence (METI)
- Post-detection policy
Artificial and engineered [edit]
- Agent based model
- Artificial consciousness
- Artificial intelligence
- Artificial creation
- Artificial life
- Artificial person
- Android (robot)
- Bionics
- Biorobotics
- Cloning
- Cyborg
- Computer simulation of the cat brain
- Computational neuroscience
- Robot
- Self-replicating machine
- Synthetic biology
- Synthetic life
Origin of the universe and life [edit]
- Abiogenesis, the transition from nonliving elements to living systems
- Cosmogony, any theory concerning the origin of the universe
- Cosmology, the study of the universe and humanity's place in it
- Creation myth, a mytho-religious story or explanation that describes the beginnings of humanity, Earth, life, and the universe
- Genesis creation narrative, creation as described in the first two chapters of the Book of Genesis in the Bible
- Molecular evolution, evolution at the scale of molecules
Encounters with animate beings subject to skepticism [edit]
- Alien abduction
- Apparitional experience
- Bilocation
- Channeling (mediumistic)
- Close encounter
- Contactee
- Doppelgänger
- Electronic voice phenomenon
- Enochian
- Foo fighter
- List of UFO sightings, encounters of the third and fourth kind
- List of reportedly haunted locations
- Mediumship
- Mystery airships
- Private revelation
- Summoning
- Will-o'-the-wisp
Animate beings subject to skepticism [edit]
- Alien abduction entities
- Alleged UFO-related entities (category)
- Cryptozoology
- Cryptobotany
- Cryptid
- Energy being
- Ghost
- Hominid cryptids (category)
- Lake monster
- List of alleged extraterrestrial beings
- List of cryptids
- Poltergeist
- Sea monster
Folklore, legendary, and mythological [edit]
- Animalia Paradoxa
- An Instinct for Dragons (book), a hypothesis on the origin of several legendary creatures
- Book of Imaginary Beings (book)
- Daemon (classical mythology)
- Demigod
- Dragon
- Fairy
- Fearsome critters
- Giant (mythology)
- Legendary creature
- List of legendary creatures
- List of legendary creatures by type
- Lists of legendary creatures (category)
- Lycanthropy
- Phoenix (mythology)
- Mythology
- Talking animal
- Trickster
- Vampire
- Undead
- Unicorn
- Yokai
Religious, spiritual, occult, and philosophical [edit]
- Ancient serpent, or great dragon
- Angel
- Angel of Death
- Antichrist
- Bodhisattva
- Buddha
- Christ
- Christian demonology
- Christian demons in popular culture
- Conceptions of God
- Creature
- Deity
- Demon
- Devil
- Egyptian soul
- Elemental spirit
- Fallen angel
- God
- Heaven
- Hell
- List of Enochian angels
- List of theological angels
- List of theological demons
- Mind
- Non-physical entity
- Pneuma
- Psyche (psychology)
- Self (spirituality)
- Soul
- Spirit
- Thetan
- Underworld
- Watcher (angel)
Fictional [edit]
- Alien invasion
- Amorphous creature
- Anthropomorphism
- Cosmic entity
- Cyborgs in fiction
- Cybernetic revolt
- Extraterrestrials in fiction
- Fantasy
- Fictional extraterrestrial characters (category)
- Fictional human races (category)
- Fictional life forms (category)
- Funny animal
- Human-derived fictional species (category)
- Hypothetical types of biochemistry in fiction
- Kaiju
- List of fictional artificial intelligences
- List of fictional cyborgs
- List of fictional extraterrestrials
- List of fictional living planets
- List of fictional robots and androids
- Lists of fictional species
- Lists of fictional species (category)
- List of films featuring extraterrestrials
- List of first appearances in Marvel Comics publications
- List of types of beings in science fiction
- Monster
- Mutant (fictional)
- Races in fantasy
- Science fiction
- Superhuman
- UFOs in fiction
- Uplift (science fiction)
Qualities, attributes, and terms [edit]
- Alien
- Being
- Consciousness
- Creature
- Entity
- Ethics
- Intelligence
- Morality
- Rationality
- Sapience
- Sentience
- Self-awareness
Issues [edit]
See also [edit]
References [edit]
- ^ "life form". World English Dictionary. Dictionary.com. 2009.
- ^ "life form". Online Oxford Dictionary of English. Oxford University Press. 2005.
- ^ Jeremy R. Hustwit (2007). "Process Philosophy". Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy. p. 3.d. Rejection of Nominalism.
- ^ Mark A. Bedau (1998). "Four Puzzles about Life". Reed College.
- ^ Harinder S. Sandhu (2010). "SCIENTIFIC - Origin of the Universe". LifeAfterDeath.info.
- ^ Jeremy R. Hustwit (2007). "Process Philosophy". Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy. p. 2.a. In Pursuit of a Holistic Worldview.
