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04Mar 2026 by Post

The Levin Teleology Revolution Is Here

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He has assembled a global community of like-minded investigators who openly advocate teleological arguments harking back to Aristotle and Plato. Source

06Jun 2025 by Post

Physicist Brian Miller: The Non-Algorithmic Nature of Life

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Immaterial? As in not material? It’s a daring proposition, to be sure, and one that has the power to change everything we understand about life. Source

31May 2025 by Post

Teleology: Anticipation and Necessity

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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. Source

02May 2025 by Post

Study Probes the Origins of Consciousness

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Understanding consciousness by these means is going to be a much slower process than the researchers had hoped. Source

30Apr 2025 by Post

Information Processing: An Unnatural Attribute of Life

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The purpose-driven responsiveness of living systems to information appears as a truly confounding enigma for naturalistic explanations Source

29Apr 2025 by Post

The Math Behind the Immaterial Genome

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While not a formal defense, this analysis aims to give readers an intuitive grasp of the reasoning behind Richard Sternberg's Platonic perspective. Source

02Aug 2024 by Post