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347 - Stephen Meyer - Where Darwinism Breaks Down

The Symbolic World

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Mind as a Constraining Force in the Universe

The Darwinian argument suggests that living beings have a tendency to persist, be autopoietic, and constrain reality in a way non-living beings do not. This constraint resembles what the mind does at higher levels. The idea is that at the core of biology, there is a form of constraint that is beyond randomness, hinting that mind is a force that constrains matter in the universe.

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