Tag: teleology
Butterly Metamorphosis as a Test Case for Sternberg’s Immaterial Genome
What is the “it” (in “itself”) that carries through from beginning to end? The creature’s “self” seems to be lost along the way, in the goo.
The Emergence of Freedom: A New Book by James Barham
Barham’s approach to teleology in nature is, if anything, Aristotelian. Indeed, Aristotle is the most cited person in the index of his book.
Physics Envy Is Not Helping Evolutionary Biology
Biology is very different from physics. But if living things are entirely describable by atoms and forces, shouldn’t laws of physics apply to them, too?
Irreducible Complexity Nested Within Irreducible Complexity: The Case of Chromosome Condensation
It is highly implausible that such a wonder of engineering arose by means of an unguided evolutionary process.
Biologist Michael Levin: A Farewell to Physicalism
Levin proposes a “radical Platonist view in which some of the causal input into mind and life originates outside the physical world.”