294 | Addy Pross on Dynamics, Stability, and Life

3693.942 - 3716.694 Sean Carroll

And is this a kind of teleology? I think you were hinting at that earlier. I mean, I think that I would certainly agree, but maybe I'm wrong with a conventional biological view that evolution is not typically forward thinking. It's not trying to solve a problem that hasn't arisen yet. It's just trying to survive in the present moment. Are you asking us to think beyond that paradigm?