ABSTRACT

The dominance of mechanistic causality has been vindicated by the law of motion of the one-to-one mapping type supplemented by its completely identifiable boundary conditions in classical mechanics, in quantum mechanics, and in stochastic process. The origin of final causality is thoroughly materialistic and physical in that the process communicating conservedness does not proceed at a velocity exceeding light velocity. Biological motility in fact manifests the process communicating conservedness being propagated at a velocity over ten orders of magnitude less than light velocity. The conception of biology in physics is already implicit in mechanics, especially with the materialistic capacity of making choices. Biological fitness is a characteristic that final causality makes evident only as an effect. Adaptation, natural selection, and fitness, when properly understood, thus point to the fundamental attributes of a materialistic process that proceeds in the mode of final causality.