Monday, December 31, 2018

Transformal Causality and Evolution

According to the Teleological concept of it, Human behavior consists in a transition from deficiency to elimination of deficiency, e. g. from hunger to eating.  Thus, for example, a Means of Production is Teleologically determined, since it serves as a means to producing a good that can eliminate a deficiency.  On the other hand, according to the Efficient Causality concept of it, Human behavior is ultimately a Response to a Stimulus.  However, usually lacking in such 'Behaviorist' formulations is an explicit positing of a governing principle of the Stimulus-Response causal connection.  Usually, the principle is implicitly Teleological, e. g. seeking food after experiencing stomach pangs, or water after experiencing mouth dryness.  Thus, neither Teleological Causality nor Efficient Causality suffices to explain behavior that seeks to surpass a condition of satiation, e. g. an Evolutionary principle.  In contrast, Transformal Causality can accommodate that principle, which can be formulated as a drive to increase Transformal Causality, i. e. via the replacement of a less comprehensive Form by a more comprehensive Form.  The fundamental instance of that increase is in Versatility, which consists in a Unity of a Multiplicity of functions.  Hence, an increase in Versatility is accomplished by an increase in the comprehensiveness of a given Multiplicity, or, in other words by Transformal Causality.  That such Causality applies fundamentally to behavior places it outside the traditional ranges of either Efficient or Teleological Causality.  Likewise, the concept is beyond the scope of the treatments of Causality by Hume and Kant.

No comments:

Post a Comment