Tag: Chance and Necessity
Teleology: Anticipation and Necessity
Imagine a primordial grizzly bear on the northern edge of the forest adjacent to the Arctic. His soma senses the differences of the new environment.
Discerning the Shape of a “New Biology”
Purpose and intentionality permeate and in fact define the living state, in contrast to the inanimate.
Building a Better Definition of Intelligent Design
Definitional change in science is par for the course: As paradigms shift because of scientific advances, textbook definitions change.
From Jacques Monod, a Grim Message for Humanity
Biology was becoming a “real” science, melded with chemistry into the new discipline of biochemistry. At last life was reducible to molecular interactions.
Is the Cell a Machine, or More Like a Mind?
At least as we’re accustomed to thinking in our age of AI, the alternative to a machine is a mind.