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Nothing in Biology Makes Sense without Teleology

Nothing in Biology Makes Sense without Teleology

Update: 2025-07-05
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This is a deliberately provocative talk (~1 hour 20 minutes) I gave on teleology (a pretty taboo subject in a lot of the life sciences) delivered at Caltech. I try to go step by step and show the philosophical background of how I think about goal-directedness in physically embodied agents (cells and tissues etc.) and then the data - classic examples and new discoveries that this framework allowed us to make.

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Nothing in Biology Makes Sense without Teleology

Nothing in Biology Makes Sense without Teleology

Michael Levin