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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Scientists Race to Deliver Custom Gene Therapies for Incurable Diseases in
Weeks—Not Years
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Gene editors usually take years to test and perfect. KJ Muldoon’s treatment
took only six months. Now his doctors want to go even faster.
The post Scient...
21 hours ago
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