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...
