Saturday, May 14, 2011

Material Causality, Motility, Indefiniteness

Material Causality is a transition from Definiteness to Indefiniteness, just as Counting is an essentially unlimited process. Early motor habit-formation makes it difficult to isolate the fundamental indefiniteness of Motility. But, one example of that indefiniteness is the situation sometimes described as 'all dressed up and nowhere to go', which reveals the basic aimless nature of Impulse. The significance of that example is that it tends to refute the pervasive Teleological interpretation of Motility, i. e. that Motility primarily functions as a means to ulterior ends that conduce to the survival of an organism. It fleetingly shows, rather, that Motility is a mode of a different Causality, and that, in itself, it is an essentially open-ended process.

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