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Philosophy: How does an idea get into the matter?

Asked by xgunther (449points) January 22nd, 2008 from iPhone

Plato thought that every object in the material world had a programed idea or purpose. But how did the idea get there? How does a tree know how to be a tree? Had anyone in history have a theory about this?

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