The Ownership of Science

[Anomalocaris]

Functions, such as adaptable traits in Nature?

Yeah, kinda. I was thinking more of hearts and it seems obvious, to non-philosopher sorts, that the function of hearts is to pump blood. Medical facts seem grounded in an assumption that body parts should function properly. But if parts, functions, and propriety are all ficticious what does that make medicine?

”function” is nothing more than a essentially arbitrary cognitive catagorizatiion  of tiny subset of the interplay between system elementary particles that emerges from the rules that govern their mutural interaction, and the complexity of organization.   it helps limited minds model reality at a coarse level, but it does not actually exist in any fundamental way in reality.

Function is fiction.   The fact that certain  configuration of elementary particles we call active ingredients interacts with certain other configuration of elementary particles we call vital organs repeat for while longer  rather than stop sooner certain aspects of its behavior we can vital biological function is what makes medicine.