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Cyclopedia of Philosophy

By: Sam Vaknin

...Order (a systemic, extensive parameter) against Disorder. In this context, natural selection is no more "blind" or "random" than its subjects. It i... ...ructure, complexity and order. The contrast that Bergson stipulated between Natural Selection and Élan Vitale is misplaced: Natural Selection IS the... ...d? How is our world as we know it "selected"? The Universe is constrained in this "selection process" by its own history, but its history is not sy... ...an give rise to many types of entirely unrelated products. There are too many free variables here. The origin exists as a "wave function": a series... ...thers (because those other words also have to be defined and this leads to infinite regression). If we adopt the broad view that a definition is the... ...either lack predictive powers or lapse into logical fallacies, such as the "omitted variable bias" or "reverse causality". The former is concerned w... ...tted variable bias" or "reverse causality". The former is concerned with important variables unaccounted for - the latter with reciprocal causation... ...life correlate, the brainwaves that accompany it. Moreover, this leads to infinite regression. If the brainwaves created the thought – who created ... ...rality. Acts are either means to an end or ends in themselves. This is no infinite regression. There is bound to be an holy grail (happiness?) in t...

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