enactedmind.bsky.social
Postdoctoral researcher at the University of Potsdam. Interested in cognition and what it means to be human. So far. I identified potential culprits: Bodies in development, minds enacting, babies being clever but mostly useless at doing things.
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For me, it's the fundamental misconception of what LIFE is that makes Dawkins's view now seem so pernicious.
Show PostThese have to do with Dawkins conception of life. He sees genes as replicators and life as replication of genes. All his arguments follow from this conception.
Show PostBut genes are NOT replicators. They get replicated. Replication is not something they DO. They're not agents and they're not alive.
Show PostLife is the dynamical pattern of processes that constitute a cell or a multicellular organism. The genome is an informational resource that stores the settings of this dynamical regime.
Show PostUnder a metabolism-first view of life (as opposed to the replication-first view favored by Dawkins), genes came late to the party.
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