Michael Levin – Christian Life Coaching Franklin Tennessee

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

23May 2025 by Post

Immaterial Genome Meets the Human-Chimp “1 Percent” Myth

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Obviously, humans and chimps are a whole lot more “different” than 1 percent. But…they’re also a lot more different than 14.9 percent. Source

14May 2025 by Post

Eavesdropping in the Platonic Academy

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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. Source

23Apr 2025 by Post

Back to the Future with Larry Sanger — And Chris Rufo, Richard Sternberg, and Michael Egnor

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There is something thrilling about looking back at a neglected text or person from the past and finding that — wow! — it or he speaks to issues of my own day. Source

28Feb 2025 by Post

Biologist Michael Levin: A Farewell to Physicalism

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Levin proposes a “radical Platonist view in which some of the causal input into mind and life originates outside the physical world.” Source

19Oct 2020 by Post

Morphogenesis: Coding for Shape

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How do you get a 3-D shape from a linear code? That is the puzzle of morphogenesis. Source

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