One of the oldest debates in biology is whether we can use teleological language like: 'goals,' 'purposes,' 'functions,' 'wanting' etc. in a scientific way. Descartes' machine metaphor combined with natural selection seems to render it nearuseless, but what if we took it seriously again?
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