Mikael Krauze - Telic Thoughts
@mikaelkrauze.bsky.social
Musings on teleology, intelligent design, evolution, consciousness, free will, agency, and basal cognition. Oh, and books!
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I see myself as a neo-platonic pantheist. The physical universe is at bottom a mathematical structure, residing in a universal Mind, which may also be called God or the One. This Mind is a rational agent with a value-actualizing intention, actualizing all worlds that are better to exist than not.
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It's out! We describe probable reptile tracks from the earliest Carboniferous of Australia. This pushes the amniote record back by some 35-40 million years and implies that the tetrapod crown group originated deep in the Late Devonian. The paper is Open Access. 🧪
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Earliest amniote tracks recalibrate the timeline of tetrapod evolution - Nature
Analysis of a fossil trackway from the earliest Carboniferous of Australia shows prints of toes with claws, suggesting that the origin of amniotes was at least 35–40 million years earlier than pr...
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May 14, 2025 at 3:19 PM
It's out! We describe probable reptile tracks from the earliest Carboniferous of Australia. This pushes the amniote record back by some 35-40 million years and implies that the tetrapod crown group originated deep in the Late Devonian. The paper is Open Access. 🧪
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
This Easter, let's remember that God actualized a universe with life-permitting parameters and those timelines in which phenomenally conscious life arose.
April 20, 2025 at 2:39 PM
This Easter, let's remember that God actualized a universe with life-permitting parameters and those timelines in which phenomenally conscious life arose.
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I'm aiming to get some thoughtful biologists together (there's no lack of them!) to discuss what kind of narratives might best reflect the nature of their field in the 21st century. Here's a preview of the goals; I'm excited and optimistic about it.
www.marginaliareviewofbooks.com/post/after-t...
www.marginaliareviewofbooks.com/post/after-t...
After the Genetic Paradigm: Why We Need a New Biology
PHILIP BALL | One sign of this shift is that biology is becoming more ready to accept and to speak of concepts long considered taboo...
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April 18, 2025 at 11:25 AM
I'm aiming to get some thoughtful biologists together (there's no lack of them!) to discuss what kind of narratives might best reflect the nature of their field in the 21st century. Here's a preview of the goals; I'm excited and optimistic about it.
www.marginaliareviewofbooks.com/post/after-t...
www.marginaliareviewofbooks.com/post/after-t...
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Great new article by Annaka Harris
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Consciousness is fundamental | Annaka Harris
For decades, our best intuitions have told us that consciousness is a product of complex brain processes, creating the taste of coffee or the smell of a rose. However, New York Times bestselling autho...
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April 16, 2025 at 9:53 PM
Great new article by Annaka Harris
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iai.tv/articles/ann...
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Panpsychists think physics is software running on the hardware of consciousness.
April 9, 2025 at 9:48 AM
Panpsychists think physics is software running on the hardware of consciousness.
Seven potential technosignatures, i.e. signs of extraterrestrial technological civilizations. Link to open access paper in the comments.
December 23, 2024 at 2:12 PM
Seven potential technosignatures, i.e. signs of extraterrestrial technological civilizations. Link to open access paper in the comments.
On the relative weakness of atheist arguments:
"Within Western philosophy, atheism has moved too quickly from a blasphemy that dare not speak its name to a dominant worldview that need offer no defense."
- Tim Mulgan, Purpose in the Universe, p. 6
"Within Western philosophy, atheism has moved too quickly from a blasphemy that dare not speak its name to a dominant worldview that need offer no defense."
- Tim Mulgan, Purpose in the Universe, p. 6
December 22, 2024 at 3:01 PM
On the relative weakness of atheist arguments:
"Within Western philosophy, atheism has moved too quickly from a blasphemy that dare not speak its name to a dominant worldview that need offer no defense."
- Tim Mulgan, Purpose in the Universe, p. 6
"Within Western philosophy, atheism has moved too quickly from a blasphemy that dare not speak its name to a dominant worldview that need offer no defense."
- Tim Mulgan, Purpose in the Universe, p. 6
Non-materialist atheists definitely exist. Just take David Chalmers. He's working on a non-materialist alternative to theism to explain phenomenal consciousness. Is that alternative also going to be able to explain fine-tuning or the origin of life? I doubt it.
December 21, 2024 at 2:05 PM
Non-materialist atheists definitely exist. Just take David Chalmers. He's working on a non-materialist alternative to theism to explain phenomenal consciousness. Is that alternative also going to be able to explain fine-tuning or the origin of life? I doubt it.
Gerd B. Müller & Stuart A. Newman (eds.), "Origination of Organismal Form: Beyond the Gene in Developmental and Evolutionary Biology" (MIT Press, 2003) #book #throwbackthursday
December 19, 2024 at 6:21 PM
Gerd B. Müller & Stuart A. Newman (eds.), "Origination of Organismal Form: Beyond the Gene in Developmental and Evolutionary Biology" (MIT Press, 2003) #book #throwbackthursday
December 17, 2024 at 4:59 PM
Redditor struggles with consequences of atheistic worldview.
December 14, 2024 at 1:59 PM
Redditor struggles with consequences of atheistic worldview.
Jacob Munk, "Livets Træ: At se Gud i evolution" (Forlaget Semper, 2020) #book #throwbackthursday
December 12, 2024 at 3:54 PM
Jacob Munk, "Livets Træ: At se Gud i evolution" (Forlaget Semper, 2020) #book #throwbackthursday
Henry M. Morris & Gary E. Parker, "What Is Creation Science?" (Master Books, 1982) #book #throwbackthursday
December 5, 2024 at 6:21 PM
Henry M. Morris & Gary E. Parker, "What Is Creation Science?" (Master Books, 1982) #book #throwbackthursday
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'But a new systematic analysis of what some call the “dark proteome” suggests scientists have missed thousands of nontraditional genes that lurk in previously overlooked stretches of the genome and make smaller than average proteins.'
www.science.org/content/arti...
www.science.org/content/arti...
‘Dark proteome’ survey reveals thousands of new human genes
Database confirms that overlooked segments of the genome code for a multitude of tiny proteins
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December 2, 2024 at 1:51 PM
'But a new systematic analysis of what some call the “dark proteome” suggests scientists have missed thousands of nontraditional genes that lurk in previously overlooked stretches of the genome and make smaller than average proteins.'
www.science.org/content/arti...
www.science.org/content/arti...
I an thankful for the universal Mind for actualizing a world of positive value.
November 28, 2024 at 4:10 PM
I an thankful for the universal Mind for actualizing a world of positive value.
Henry M. Morris, "Scientific Creationism" (Master Books, 1985) #book #throwbackthursday
November 28, 2024 at 2:02 PM
Henry M. Morris, "Scientific Creationism" (Master Books, 1985) #book #throwbackthursday
Psychology Today: Physicalism is Dead
November 25, 2024 at 2:09 PM
Psychology Today: Physicalism is Dead
All life is conscious. A thread. 🧵
November 24, 2024 at 2:19 PM
All life is conscious. A thread. 🧵
J. P. Moreland & John Mark Reynolds, "Three Views on Creation and Evolution" (ZondervanPublishingHouse, 1999) #book #throwbackthursday
November 21, 2024 at 9:48 PM
J. P. Moreland & John Mark Reynolds, "Three Views on Creation and Evolution" (ZondervanPublishingHouse, 1999) #book #throwbackthursday
New open access essay on the need for abandoning gene-centrism in favor of a more holistic, cell-based approach.
November 17, 2024 at 2:02 PM
New open access essay on the need for abandoning gene-centrism in favor of a more holistic, cell-based approach.
The Four Horsemen of Cosmic Teleology
November 16, 2024 at 2:08 PM
The Four Horsemen of Cosmic Teleology
I see myself as a neo-platonic pantheist. The physical universe is at bottom a mathematical structure, residing in a universal Mind, which may also be called God or the One. This Mind is a rational agent with a value-actualizing intention, actualizing all worlds that are better to exist than not.
November 15, 2024 at 2:02 PM
I see myself as a neo-platonic pantheist. The physical universe is at bottom a mathematical structure, residing in a universal Mind, which may also be called God or the One. This Mind is a rational agent with a value-actualizing intention, actualizing all worlds that are better to exist than not.