@themattsimpson Yet it seems like there are final causes in evolution. (Not fundamentally, but on the same level where e.g. humans exist.)
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@MemberOfSpecies @themattsimpson Example of a final cause in this context? Not sure what you mean. - 4 more replies
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@GrumplessGrinch I mean, in practice you have to think of hard to compute things as if they're random. -
@MemberOfSpecies @themattsimpson Sometimes. Lots of things that are hard to compute precisely are easier to approximate. - 1 more reply
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@GrumplessGrinch So if you know about gravity, "low potential gravitational energy" is not a final cause that tells you -
@MemberOfSpecies I don’t actually know the phil state-of-art, but an epistemically-loaded account of causality might be novel, and worth > - 3 more replies
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@GrumplessGrinch I'm sort of fumbling around here and I'm going to stop talking until I've actually thought it through.Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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@GrumplessGrinch Maybe you could say a final cause is a pattern in the unknown formal features of the efficient causes,Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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@themattsimpson Yes, the backward causation objection doesn't seem to hold.
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@themattsimpson Does "purpose" and "agenthood" mean "systematic optimization toward a utility function"?
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