If you think talking about "attractors" frees you from the embarrassment of teleology, you might be treating language as a hipster wardrobe.
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Replying to @ja_wentworth
@ja_wentworth Teleology means final causality. Any other associations are subordinate and -- if necessary -- dispensable.1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes -
Replying to @Outsideness
@Outsideness@ja_wentworth is teleology anything more than modal necessity?1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes -
Replying to @schakalsynthetc
@schakalsynthetc@ja_wentworth How would modal necessity deliver final causality? It seems too non-specific to do the work.1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes -
Replying to @Outsideness
@Outsideness@ja_wentworth that's the point, kind of. telos implies a universe set up such that only one final state is possible1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes -
Replying to @schakalsynthetc
@Outsideness@ja_wentworth which ours may or may not actually be - but from a modal realist pov that question's just indexical1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes -
Replying to @schakalsynthetc
@Outsideness@ja_wentworth it's of the same type as asking "what timezone am I in?" - *important to know* but not *significant per se*2 replies 0 retweets 0 likes
@schakalsynthetc @ja_wentworth I can certainly see the consistency, but its on another level of description. Teleology = convergent waves.
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