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property, which we shall call teleonomy. It will be readily seen that, in this or that species situated higher or lower on the animal scale, the achievement of the fundamental teleonomic project (i.e., invariant reproduction) calls assorted, more or less elaborate and complex structures and performances into play. The fact must be stressed that concerned here are not only the activities directly bound up with reproduction itself, but all those that contribute-be it very indirectly-to the species' survival and multiplication. For example, in higher mammals the play of the young is an important element of psychic development and social integration. Therefore this activity has teleonomic value, inasmuch as it furthers the cohesion of the group, a condition for its survival and for the expansion of the species.
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according to which organisms are selected. Corning calls this phenomenon "teleonomic selection". Additionally, recent research has demonstrated that mutations are not random with reference to their value to the organism. Monroe and colleagues presented solid evidence that the most important genes undergo fewer mutations. If the phenomenon responsible for making the most important genes undergo fewer mutations remained an enigma, many would easily assume that there is some form of control systems (teleonomy) in the generation of mutations. Assuming this would be incorrect, as the phenomenon responsible for making genes more "protected" from mutations occurs completely automatically, without any teleonomic aspect.
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If we replace the words ‘in order to escape’ by ‘and thereby escapes’, we leave the important question unanswered as to why the Wood Thrush migrates. The teleonomic form of the statement implies that the goal-directed migratory activity is governed by a program. By omitting this important message the
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Rather than reject this idea (as certain biologists have tried to do) it is indispensable to recognise that it is essential to the very definition of living beings. We shall maintain that the latter are distinct from all other structures or systems present in the universe through this characteristic
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The biologists long-standing confusion would be removed if all end-directed systems were described by some other term, e.g., 'teleonomic', in order to emphasize that recognition and description of end-directedness does not carry a commitment to Aristotelian teleology as an efficient causal principle.
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Biologists for a while were prepared to say a turtle came ashore and laid its eggs. These verbal scruples were intended as a rejection of teleology but were based on the mistaken view that the efficiency of final causes is necessarily implied by the simple description of an end-directed mechanism. …
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Mayr says, 'The existence of complex codes of information in the DNA of the germ plasm permits teleonomic purposiveness. On the other hand, evolutionary research has found no evidence whatsoever for a "goal-seeking" of evolutionary lines, as postulated in that kind of teleology which sees "plan and
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Haldane can be found remarking, ‘Teleology is like a mistress to a biologist: he cannot live without her but he’s unwilling to be seen with her in public.’ Today the mistress has become a lawfully wedded wife. Biologists no longer feel obligated to apologize for their use of teleological language;
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as essentially recursive in nature. Kant's position is that, even though we cannot know whether there are final causes in nature, we are constrained by the peculiar nature of the human understanding to view organisms teleologically. Thus the Kantian view sees teleology as a necessary principle for
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The concept of teleonomy was largely developed by Mayr and Pittendrigh to separate biological evolution from teleology. Pittendrigh's purpose was to enable biologists who had become overly cautious about goal-oriented language to have a way of discussing the goals and orientations of an organism's
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described the properties of "archeo-purpose" (by natural selection) and "neo-purpose" (by evolved adaptation) in his talk on the "Purpose of Purpose". Dawkins attributes the brain's flexibility as an evolutionary feature in adapting or subverting goals to making neo-purpose goals on an overarching
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In 1962, Grace A. de Laguna's "The Role of Teleonomy in Evolution" attempted to show how different stages of evolution were characterized by different types of teleonomy. de Laguna points out that humans have oriented teleonomy so that the teleonomic goal is not restricted to the reproduction of
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notes that behavior, which is a teleonomic trait, is responsible for the construction of biological niches, which is an agent of selection. Therefore, it would be inaccurate to say that there was no role for teleonomy in the process of evolution, since teleonomy dictates the fitness landscape
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Monroe, J. Grey; Murray, Kevin D.; Xian, Wenfei; Srikant, Thanvi; Carbonell-Bejerano, Pablo; Becker, Claude; Lensink, Mariele; Exposito-Alonso, Moises; Klein, Marie; Hildebrandt, Julia; Neumann, Manuela; Kliebenstein, Daniel; Weng, Mao-Lun; Imbert, Eric; Ågren, Jon (July 2023).
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distinction between purposefulness (having an internal determination) and purposiveness (serving or effecting a useful function). Reese implies that non-teleological statements are called teleonomic when they represent an "if A then C" phenomenon's
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behaviors without inadvertently invoking teleology. Mayr was even more explicit, saying that while teleonomy certainly operates on the level of organisms, the process of evolution itself is necessarily non-teleonomic.
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Monroe JG, Srikant T, Carbonell-Bejerano P, Becker C, Lensink M, Exposito-Alonso M, Klein M, Hildebrandt J, Neumann M, Kliebenstein D, Weng ML, Imbert E, Ågren J, Rutter MT, Fenster CB, Weigel D (2022).
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views of evolution. Their recent rehabilitation is evident in teleonomy, which bears a number of features, such as the description of organisms, that are reminiscent of the Aristotelian conception of
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evolutionary archeo-purpose. Language allows groups to share neo-purposes, and cultural evolution - occurring much faster than natural evolution - can lead to conflict or collaborations.
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as the tendency for individual things to persist in existence, meaning the pursuit of stability within the internal relations between their individual parts, in a similar way to
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and a related theory of world-history, adopted the concept of teleonomy as the fundamental organizing principle for directional processes and his theory of
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is the quality of apparent purposefulness and of goal-directedness of structures and functions in living organisms brought about by natural processes like
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On the Resistance to Entropic Elevation of Genetic Information: The Solution to the Non-Randomness of Mutations With Reference to Their Essentiality
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cited Pittendrigh and criticized him for not making a "clear distinction between the two teleologies of Aristotle"; evolution involves Aristotle's
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would also fit this description without the necessity of a localized intelligence. Whereas the concept of a teleonomic process, such as
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design" in nature. The harmony of the living universe, so far as it exists, is an a posteriori product of natural selection.
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In recent years, a few biologists believe that the separation of teleonomy from the process of evolution has gone too far.
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second sentence is greatly impoverished as far as information content is concerned, without gaining in causal strength.
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representation. The concept of purpose, as only being the teleology final cause, requires supposedly impossible
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further analysed the concept of goal-directedness in biology and by 1982, philosopher and historian of science
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and asserted nature does not pursue specific goals and acts in a deterministic although non-directed way.
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they flaunt it. The only concession which they make to its disreputable past is to rename it ‘teleonomy’.
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This attitude towards the role of teleonomy in the evolutionary process is the consensus view of the
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the study of organisms, but only as a regulative principle, and with no ontological implications.
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from the environment via the selection of fitter coalitions of structures and functions.
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to actions planned by an agent who can internally model alternative futures with
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in general. In this way, Parsons tried to find a theoretical compromise between
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the inclemency of the weather and the food shortages of the northern climates."
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the inclemency of the weather and the food shortages of the northern climates."
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as a principle of action and the idea of a certain directionality in history.
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to systems operating on the basis of a program of coded information. (p.42)
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which builds an internal model based on past and possible future states.
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In 1974 Ernst Mayr illustrated the difference in the statements:
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words, τέλος, from τελε-, ("end", "goal", "purpose") and νόμος
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Apparent purposefulness brought about by natural processes
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Index

natural selection
Greek
teleology
evolutionary
reproductive success
Teleology in biology
Colin Pittendrigh
teleology
intention
Ernst Mayr
material causes
formal causes
efficient causes
Richard Dawkins
behavior analysis
adverbial
antecedent
consequent
time reversal
temporal paradox
evolution
George C. Williams
Jacques Monod
Chance and Necessity
Ernest Nagel
David Hull
modern synthesis
hindsight
feedback
Robert Rosen

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