I am not sure whether @Michael Levin fully recognizes the metaphysical implications of his radical position (who among us can?!). He is affirming that as yet unactualized patterns in Platonic morphospace have some kind of autonomous efficacy to shape biological development and evolution. From a process-relational point of view, such a position either succumbs to the fallacy of misplaced concreteness by granting abstractions efficient causal power, or it tacitly presupposes something like Whit...| Substack
Below I am outlining the remarks I will share tomorrow morning for day 2 of Gregg Henriques’ UTOK—“Universal Theory of Knowledge”—Conference on Consciousness. I’m speaking on a panel with Michael Levin (the biologist) and @Bonnitta Roy (the philosopher-practitioner of process-relational arts). The Universal Theory-of-Knowledge (UTOK) project calls for a framework capable of integrating physics, biology, psychology, and the humanities. Most theories of mind either begin below the h...| Substack
It is well-known that the hard problem of consciousness remains one of the great mysteries in science.| Medium
“What man most passionately wants is his living wholeness and his living unison, not his own isolate salvation of his ‘soul.’ Man wants his physical fulfillment first and foremost, since now, once …| Footnotes2Plato