Goal-directed morphogenesis vs. Platonic claims

This is a ~52 minute conversation with philosopher David Resnik (https://www.niehs.nih.gov/research/resources/bioethics/bioethicist) about the Platonic Space model and our plan for a new paper about a different variant of it than what I've been writing so far.

CHAPTERS:

(00:00) Morphogenesis and latent space

(15:19) Platonism's scientific utility

(27:06) Explanation, models, morphospace

(36:51) Models, journals, writing

(43:33) Mathematical patterns in evolution

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