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How Life Becomes Comprehensible: A New Scientific Framework

The duality of emergence and specified irreducible complexity must be discarded. In doing so, we create a framework compatible with Thomistic Aristotelianism. Read More ›
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Life Without Purpose — The Fundamental Flaw

The fundamental flaw in the conventional approach to understanding life is that we think we can fully understand the whole by looking at the individual parts. Read More ›
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Emergence by Design

The originators of the concept were two 19th-century British philosopher-scientists, John Stuart Mill and George Henry Lewes. Read More ›

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