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Towards a Post Reductionist Science: The Open Universe
, 2009 In this paper I discuss the reality that deductive inference is not the only way we explain in science. I discuss the role of the opportunity for an adaptation in the biosphere and claim that such an opportunity is a 'blind final cause', not an efficient
Kauffman, Stuart
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Time invaders:conceptualizing performative game time [PDF]
, 2017 This chapter characterizes framing devices and other game elements as unstable signifiers, evaluating performances according to how they generate diachronic or synchronic effects by acting on those signifiers.
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Carving teleology at its joints [PDF]
This paper addresses the conceptualisation and measurement of goal-directedness. Drawing inspiration from Ernst Mayr’s demarcation between multiple meanings of teleology, we propose a refined approach that delineates different kinds of teleology ...
Davoody Benı, Majıd, Friston, Karl
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A thermodynamic basis for teleological causality. [PDF]
Philos Trans A Math Phys Eng Sci, 2023 Deacon TW, García-Valdecasas M.
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Fractal Philosophy: Attunement as the Task of Art [PDF]
, 2010 Moving the logic of senses to its next incarnation: as a fractal philosophy, the condition of art practice/production is re-staged as a post-metaphysical, and with it, a post-postmodern aesthetic.
Golding, Johnny
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Molecules, Information and the Origin of Life: What Is Next? [PDF]
Molecules, 2021 Chirumbolo S, Vella A.
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Teleonomy and the proximate–ultimate distinction revisited
Biological Journal of the Linnean Society, 2019 Abstract It is now widely accepted that living systems exhibit an internal teleology (or teleonomy), but there are conflicting views about how this should be interpreted. Colin Pittendrigh and others have defined teleonomy broadly. It encompasses all ‘proximate’ (functional) biological phenomena.
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Towards a Model of Life and Cognition [PDF]
, 2004 What should be the ontology of the world such that life and cognition are possible? In this essay, I undertake to outline an alternative ontological foundation which makes biological and cognitive phenomena possible.
G., Nagarjuna
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Supply chains : ago-antagonistic systems through co-opetition game theory lens [PDF]
Supply chain configurations, as hybrid governance structures, allow companies to be sufficiently integrated while keeping a certain level of flexibility.
A. Spalanzani, I. Zouaghi
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Medicine, health and the human side: responsibility in medical practice. [PDF]
Med Health Care Philos, 2022 Palavicini G.
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