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185 | Arvid Ågren on the Gene’s-Eye View of Evolution

Sean Carroll's Mindscape: Science, Society, Philosophy, Culture, Arts, and Ideas

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The Machine, the Organism, the Machine

Inecanb thinking of organisms as machines is goes back a long way. And i sho, how much should we allow ourselves to talk in terms of of purpose? That is something that really runs quite deep in imbiology. I think it's awkwardly trying to balance the two. On one end, is a physical science, but the undherhand is a behavior of science. It's no lan vital tere's nothing can of spoky going on. But you have kind of allowed yourself then, to use a kind of language which otherwise isn't really in science.

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