Published November 12, 2026 | Version 1.0.0

Responding to Joel Dietz (MIT)'s "77.6++%" Defense of Michael Levin's Biological Causal Platonism and His Demonstrable Misrepresentations of My Actual Argument

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An independently authored, source-based and computationally reproducible critique of Joel Dietz's seven-claim evaluation of Michael Levin's biological causal Platonism. The article separates support for mathematical and organizational models from support for additional nonphysical causal ingress, evaluates source attribution and code-verification limitations, and identifies rival-model and intervention tests. It does not claim to disprove mathematical Platonism. This is an independently authored article; it has not been externally peer reviewed and does not imply endorsement by the authors or researchers discussed. The WordPress edition at sweetrationalism.com is canonical; this record preserves a frozen archival edition with the article text, source-check packages and independent audit evidence.

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