Can it be so simple?

I think your concept of comparing anti-matter with spirit is wrong-headed.

1) If that were so - every body that had a spirit woudl annihilate and become nothing.

2) I am not sure as though quarks are degenerating.

3) You have confused two conceptions here: Matter and anti-matter - and Aristotles concept of potentiality and actuality.

In your flower example the 'spiritual energy' of the flower is it's potential which becomes actual when it becomes a flower. But if this potential were anti-matter - as soon as it reached it flowerness it would not degenerate - it would annihilate (Following Einstiens E = MC2). However, in reality - for every particle of matter that came in contact with its spirit (in your concept) it would annihilate and the flower would never come to be.

I think what this potential really resembles is energy. Thus there is matter (actuality) and energy (potentiality) - but the real question is - is energy is non-material how does it move material?

This is why quantum physicists have come to call gravity a 'virtual particle' so that is makes sense that is moves particles around.

TTF

Maybe I shouldn't have used the word antimatter. I was thinking of something with attributes completely oposite of matter. Energy, as I see it is also matter, only in another form. They are the same in different states.
Maybe what I am talking about is purpose. The thing that is the soul of a human being, or of a simpler creature, a horse maybe... I think I need to think on it some more...

Cyracuz
Something with attributes completely oposite to matter?
I dont understand.
I think that you are defining that "something" but what it isn't. I mean, that "something" would be characterized by having no mass, no mouvement, no dimensions ...
What you say is: spirit is all that matter isn't. But what?
If I didn't know what a lion was, and asked you, would you answer that a lion is something that does not fly? Or does not breathe under water?

About the seed and the plant. There is no mystical energy envolved in the process. A seed, as TTF pointed, is a potential plant. It can be eat by the birds, or to dry due to lack of water. Then, the seed never becomes a plant in ACT, only in potence.

Hehe.. If you ask me what a lion is I can only explain using terms that are familiar to you. This goes to show how limited language is.

That's my point with the plant. It can be eaten, or it can dry out. It can also burn if it is set fire to. It is exposed to energy, and destroyed. But the plant also has the means to safely absorb energy, and so it grows. What I am asking is: What force organizes matter into dna strings and enables it to absorb other energies and other matter to grow? When you talk about a seeds potential I do not think you fully understand where I am aiming. This potential originates somewhere. Where?

My body is formed by my spirit. To sustain my body I need to feed it more matter, wich it converts to energy. I am dependent on heat also, wich my body absorbs.

Cyracuz

Potential originates somewhere. Where?

I can only answer by saying that any property of a living entity is an adjustement to external conditions. There is no force to organize matter in dna strings, or at least I don't see the need of it. You use the word "matter" like raw material, inert and waiting to be mould. I see everything as a process. Matter being nothing more than the way energy appears in precise conditions of space and time.

Val, if the properties of a living entity is an adjustment to external conditions, then why does not a dog and a cat who is born in the same house have the same properties? I agree that external conditions are a factor. In fact I agree with everything being a process also. But I think there are elements in play that we have failed to recognize. You say that matter is nothing more than the way energy appears in precise conditions of space and time, and that is also similar to my own thoughts. It has no will of its own, and is only subject to the forces of the universe. But how then does it evolve to become complex living organisms? Where is this purpose, or potential originating?