Michael Polanyi's paper on life's irreducible structure. The companion cites his observation that machines work by imposing on the laws boundary conditions that the laws themselves do not determine. Teleological saturation (C2) therefore requires no change in physical law: agents' boundary conditions would set many of the regularities we infer from observation.
- Cited in
- the companion paper
- Used for
- C2
- Strand
- Philosophy of agency, purpose & science
Cite
@article{polanyi1968life,
title = {Life's Irreducible Structure},
author = {Michael Polanyi},
year = {1968},
journal = {Science},
doi = {10.1126/science.160.3834.1308},
}