a-close-up-of-a-purple-water-droplet-creating-a-splash-in-a-1816336606-stockpack-adobestock Type post Author Stephen J. Iacoboni Date May 13, 2026 CategoriesEvolutionIntelligent Design Tagged , A. N. Whitehead, active matter, agency, biomolecular condensates, biosphere, cellular biology, central dogma, cytoplasm, DNA, droplets, function, goal-directedness, Life Itself, liquid-liquid phase separations, machines, mechanism, membrane-less organelles, molecular agency, molecular biology, organelles, proteins, rigidity, RNA, science of purpose, scientific materialism, self-organization, soft matter, specified irreducible complexity, structure-function relationship, Stuart Kauffman, telos, Thomistic-Aristotelian ontology Studies on Active Matter: Potency into Act Stephen J. Iacoboni May 13, 2026 Evolution, Intelligent Design 8 Amorphous and dynamic as they are, the LLPS droplets support numerous crucial cellular functions, devoid of a permanent scaffolding structure. Read More ›
Cytosol Type post Author Stephen J. Iacoboni Date March 18, 2026 CategoriesBiologyIntelligent Design Tagged , 3D spatial organization, active matter, Aristotle, biology, cargo recognition, cascades, cells, condensates, cycles, cytoplasm, Darwin's Black Box, dissipative systems, DNA transcription, droplets, electrolytes, endoplasmic reticulum, Energy, enzyme activity, function, goal-directedness, Golgi bodies, Ilya Prigogine, intentionality, intracellular landscape, living systems, lysosomes, machines, macromolecules, matter, mechanism, medical school, Michael Behe, mitochondria, molecular biology, molecular grammar, naturalism, neo-Darwinian evolution, nucleus, organisms, physics, Riccardo Babic, scaffolding, Science and Culture Today, science of purpose, signaling cascades, St. Thomas Aquinas, structure, TCA cycle, telos, tornadoes, Trends in Biochemical Sciences, Velcro, whirlpools Active Matter: How Function Determines Structure Stephen J. Iacoboni March 18, 2026 Biology, Intelligent Design 8 As always, the approach of naturalism is to reduce the complexity of natural phenomena to basic physical laws. Read More ›
