The EDU hypothesis is a “just so” story, a self-selected and suspicious fantasy that must be held at arms length until it can be more objectively evaluated. It has parsimony of sorts and intuitive appeal to (at least some) purpose-seeking, biological minds. We present it in a long tradition of Goethe (1790), Schelling (1800), Chambers (1844), Darwin (1859,1871)...and other philosophers of science who suspect a naturalistically teleological (directional, progressive, and partly purposeful) universe that uses natural selection as an integral process, but not the only process in its successive self-improvement.
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What It Would Take to Suck CO2 Back Out of the Atmosphere
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If greenhouse gases are such a problem, can’t we just suck the carbon
dioxide back out of the atmosphere? It’s a perfectly reasonable question
and an impor...
22 hours ago
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