Purpose, Value, Evolution, Consciousness, Sentience, Life & Emergence of Mind From Matter | Terrence Deacon | 95
Mind & Matter
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What Is Teleology and Why Is It Important?
The first law of thermodynamics says that matter and energy can't be created or destroyed. The fact that living things can be born and died is telling us that this is something different than just matter and energy. Aboutness emerges in a world where there wasn't aboutness before, so how does it come into the world? There's what we sometimes call normativity; when life comes into play, there can be good chemistry and bad chemistry. These are normative features. These have value.
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