Reciprocal Causality in Physics and Biology - Wheeler's Spacetime and Darwin's Evolution

This report examines the profound analogical relationship between John Wheeler's elegant formulation of Einstein's general relativity—"matter tells spacetime how to curve, and curved spacetime tells matter how to move"—and a comparable characterization of Darwin's evolutionary theory: "genetics tell an organism how to live, and the environment shapes the evolution of a species population." Both formulations reveal similar patterns of reciprocal causality that offer insights into the nature of fundamental scientific paradigms and their epistemological foundations.