Biologist Michael Levin: A Farewell to Physicalism

Andreas Wagner, biology, Daniel Dennett, David Deutsch, Discovery Institute, DNA, emergence, Engineering, environment, Evolution, flatworms, frogs, George F. R. Ellis, Günter Bechly, Harvard University, Life Sciences, material world, materialism, mathematics, Max Tegmark, Michael Levin, morphogenesis, mysterian, mysticism, naturalism, numerosity, philosophies, physical world, planarian flatworms, Platonism, Platonists, preprint, Richard Sternberg, Roger Penrose, spooky, Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy, teleology, Tufts University, University of Zurich, Werner Heisenberg
Levin proposes a “radical Platonist view in which some of the causal input into mind and life originates outside the physical world.” Source
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How Frogs and Fish “Count”

algebra, ants, Brian Butterworth, calculus, Can Fish Count?, common ancestor, croaks, dyscalculia, fish, frogs, Gary Rose, geometry, humans, Intelligent Design, mathematics, neurons, neuroscience, Neuroscience & Mind, number sense, numbers, pallium, Psyche (journal), respiratory fitness, túngara frog, zebrafish
We’re beginning to find out more about how animals that don’t really “think” much can keep track of numbers, when needed. Source
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