”The living world gives us ample evidence that agency cannot be reduced to local molecular interactions. Cells, tissues, and organisms exhibit large-scale patterns and homeorhesis, near endless ingenuity in the face of perturbation. These are not mechanical outcomes of biochemical reactions. Neither are they dictated from a pre-existent blueprint of forms… They arise from living creatures actively negotiating a value-laden field of potentialities…that cannot, in their singularity, be predicted in advance.”
—Matthew Segall, The Return of Platonic Biology: Thinking though Platonic Morphospace
https://footnotes2plato.substack.com/p/the-return-of-platonic-biology
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