Sean Carroll @seanmcarroll.bsky.social

Mindscape 281 | Samir Okasha on the Philosophy of Agency and Evolution. #MindscapePodcast
www.preposterousuniverse.com/podcast/2024...

2 replies 3 reposts 13 likes

Xanaxides @xanaxides.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 01, 2024 at 19:58 UTC

A fun conversation! I remain not-quite-convinced about multilevel selection in any sense other than analytic convenience. Biology is clearly discrete rather than continuous but I dunno if there is anything analogous to the way quantization works in physics because the categories are squishy-er.

0 replies 0 reposts 0 likes

Sean Carroll @seanmcarroll.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 01, 2024 at 12:15 UTC

If you want more, Samir has the books for you: Agents and Goals in Evolution, and Evolution and the Levels of Selection.

global.oup.com/academic/pro...

academic.oup.com/book/3059

0 replies 0 reposts 3 likes