Biological Life is More Than It Seems: Aiming Upward from the Flat Ontology of Materiality
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The Non-Linear Relationship Between DNA and Mysticism
The DNA is part of the material cause of the organism it's the matter by which it's made up. The formal cause is the immaterial pattern that maintains the ittness of the organism in physical reality and that's why you have this non-linear relationship with DNA, he says. "You can do all sorts of things and still have like moving the eyes artificially down and still have the organism end up in the same place"
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