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Life with purpose.
Biologists balk at any talk of ‘goals’ or ‘intentions’ – but a bold new research agenda has put agency back on the table.
"Yet, on the contrary, we now have growing reasons to suspect that agency is a genuine natural phenomenon. Biology could stop being so coy about it if only we had a proper theory of how it arises"
By Philip Ball
https://aeon.co/essays/the-biological-research-putting-purpose-back-into-life