Natural Teleology (The limitations of science)

by George Jelliss , Crewe, Wednesday, January 23, 2013, 15:32 (4110 days ago)

This is a review of a new book by the philosopher Thomas Nagel who argues for some form of natural teleology. It runs over two pages-http://www.nybooks.com/articles/archives/2013/feb/07/awaiting-new-darwin/?page=1-It reminds me somewhat of the ideas of G.B.Shaw and Teilhard de Chardin, or more recent ones on emergence of complexity, though these are not mentioned in the text.-The idea of some sort of holistic laws governing the evolution of the universe are not inconceivable. For instance there is the Smolin theory of evolving universes where the aim is the maximising of the number or size of black holes.

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