ultimately, they are
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which one of his claims you're thinking of? I am not a physicist
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The entire theory of nonlinearity and self-organizing systems is Prigogine’s contribution, and Darwinism (as well as everything else) has had to reflect that. You’re retconning Darwin with much later ideas—which he no doubt intuited.
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When talking about Darwinism (though not Darwin), I am justified in "retconning" because Darwinism is still the main "narrative" in biology to which things are "retconned"
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There are multiple cases of people trying (mostly unsuccessfully) to bring ideas from physics into biology -- this includes things like emergence, quantum mechanics, entropy, and so on. Most biologists do not take this very seriously.
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The trouble is that biology deals with learning systems, and most physicists "fail" to grasp the learning nature of it -- or sometimes assume that some mathematically elegant model will be sufficient to describe it (it almost never is).
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I think you just have a dogmatic bone to pick with other disciplines tbh.
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you can't ignore the fact that one of the surest signs of cranks in science is that they are "interdisciplinary"
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OK…? What a mistake for evolutionary theory to penetrate medicine!
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