Tag: physicalism
A Paradigm Crisis for Physicalism
This crisis has converged with two other currents of change with the surprising result that alternatives to physicalism are now taken seriously.
Can a Brainless Jellyfish Learn? How About Individual Cells? Do Molecules Communicate?
Cells are intelligent, in a way. But that fact is a much better argument for intelligent design than for the idea that the human intellect is insignificant.
Is Life Just Chemistry, or Chemistry Plus Information?
Theoretical biologist Marcello Barbieri finds that many biologists see information in life forms as something that “does not really belong to science.”
Science After Babel: An Exercise in Self-Criticism
Until the day before yesterday, the imperial architects of the scientific revolution were well satisfied and sleek as seals.
Can We Eliminate the Idea of Function from Biology? A Philosopher and a Biologist Want to Try
They propose the term “biological role” instead. Thus, presumably, “the function of teeth is chewing” becomes “the biological role of teeth is chewing.”