Ya, if you want to see this cashed out here's Stuart Kauffman https://www.npr.org/sections/13.7/2011/04/04/135113346/there-are-more-uses-for-a-screwdriver-than-

Ya, if you want to see this cashed out here's Stuart Kauffman https://www.npr.org/sections/13.7/2011/04/04/135113346/there-are-more-uses-for-a-screwdriver-than-you-can-calculate https://www.npr.org/sections/13.7/2011/04/04/135113346/there... "IS THERE A FINITE PRESTATABLE SET OF BIOLOGICAL "FUNCTIONS?" That is, is there a finite prestatable list of features of organisms that MIGHT serve a selective function in some selective environment? I think the deep answer is NO. The unexpected uses of features of organisms, or technologies, are precisely what happens in the evolution of the biosphere and econosphere, and the analog happens in cultural evolution with the uses of mores, cultural forms, regulations, traditions, in novel ways. In general, these possibles are novel functionalities, in an unbounded space of functionalities, and so are not mathematizable and derivable from a finite set of axioms. " I think Kauffman is not against finite origins, but that they can capture infinity afforded by them is the impossible task. What's misunderstood about Wittgenstein though? Didn't he say the uses of language are limitless? I think he also would add in some form for finite starting point.