RE: Physical idealism
May 13, 2016 at 12:03 pm
(This post was last modified: May 13, 2016 at 12:09 pm by The Grand Nudger.)
Everything you've referred to in support of or -as- a "formal principle" is something that I would call a material object or material interaction.
For example, you imagine that the "idea of fishiness" would drive convergent development on alien worlds of exotic life which people would..IDK, -call- fish (though they call dolphins fish here on earth... so I'm not sure if that means anything). Well, okay...forget that I don't agree with that at all. What is the "idea of fishiness"? You keep referring to the liquid water world and strategies for success in a liquid water world. That's what I'd call a material interaction between biota and their environment. Your "formal principle" is in no way different from my "environmental selective pressure".
Is it?
For example, you imagine that the "idea of fishiness" would drive convergent development on alien worlds of exotic life which people would..IDK, -call- fish (though they call dolphins fish here on earth... so I'm not sure if that means anything). Well, okay...forget that I don't agree with that at all. What is the "idea of fishiness"? You keep referring to the liquid water world and strategies for success in a liquid water world. That's what I'd call a material interaction between biota and their environment. Your "formal principle" is in no way different from my "environmental selective pressure".
Is it?
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