Tag: Tufts University
Eavesdropping in the Platonic Academy
I can relate to the paleontologist Günter Bechly, who, after hearing Sternberg lay out his thesis, lay awake unable to sleep as he considered the implications.
Plato’s Revenge: Mathematical Biologist Richard Sternberg Foresaw Major Developments in Biology
A new book traces the ideas of Dr. Sternberg, who offers rigorous scientific evidence that the true control center of life lies outside DNA.
Biologist Michael Levin Is at It Again, Now Pushing at the Mind-Brain Equation
When caterpillars are in their chrysalises, their brains physically dissolve (along with the rest of their bodies) and are rebuilt as butterfly brains.
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.”
Dawkins and Picard Win This Year’s Trotter Prize
A reflection on the 2025 Trotter Prize Lecture delivered by Oxford’s Richard Dawkins and MIT’s Rosalind Picard.