1Oct/140
BBC News – Sense of smell ‘may predict lifespan’
The evidence that life (and consciousness) is an emergent phenomenon keeps piling up. Richard Dawkins talked about extended phenotypes - beaver bodies + beaver dams making beavering possible - and I think this is an excellent observation. But if the process of extending phenotypes continues and continues eventually the rationale for talking about phenotypes (and genotypes) in the first place disappears. .
Then we have a process metaphysics!