The human ingenuity involved in the invention of tools is usually interpreted teleologically, i. e. as a means to the more effective securing of goods. However, that explanation does not sufficiently account for the most famous invention, the wheel, or for either the more elaborate transportation modes that have followed, or for the discovery of new goods that are preceded and occasioned by some invention. Hence, the concept of the tool as an extension of human physiological processes has greater explanatory power for that ingenuity. So, since Will is the principle of self-extending in human experience, the invention and use of tools is primarily an expression of it, with purposiveness a derivative, even if frequent, special case.
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