Engineers as philosophers, Part 3
So I claim that teleology is a subset of the spectrum of intelligence. And what I mean by intelligence is this: William James gave a nice, very cybernetic definition of intelligence. He didn't talk about brains. He didn't talk about what problem space was involved. He said it's the ability to reach the same goal by different means.
Reach the same
... See more"Nothing in biology makes sense without teleology" by Michael Levin
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Alex Komoroskex.comSimilarly, we might think of design method as a process for inquiry into the purposes, plans, and intentions behind what humans make and do.