We are pleased to share a three-part video series based on Reliance College founder Marsha Familaro Enright’s paper Life is not a Machine or a Ghost: The Naturalistic Origin of Life’s Organization and Goal-Directedness, Consciousness, Free Will, and Meaning, published in the Journal of Ayn Rand Studies in July 2023.
In this series, Enright presents a compelling naturalistic framework for understanding what life truly is — drawing on the work of Aristotle, Ayn Rand, Ludwig von Bertalanffy, Arthur Koestler, and Hans Jonas to address some of the deepest questions in philosophy of biology: Is life genuinely goal-directed? How does consciousness emerge from living systems? And what does this mean for our understanding of free will and human meaning?
