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    It is not the case that There is nothing mysterious about teleology.

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    • 1.Engineered teleology presupposes intentional design by minds, making it explanatorily circular when used to naturalize teleology.
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    • 2.Charles Taylor argued that genuine teleology requires intrinsic directedness toward ends, not mere extrinsic programming by designers.
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    • 3.Explaining teleology via artifacts smuggles in the very intentionality the account was meant to eliminate.
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    • 1.Nagel's 'Mind and Cosmos' argues that goal-directedness in biological organisms resists reduction to efficient-causal mechanisms, unlike engineered systems.
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    • 2.Biological teleology is not assigned by an external agent but is constitutive of the organism's own nature, making the robot analogy category-mistaken.
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    • 1.Purposive mechanisms in engineered systems (such as a robot aeroplane) demonstrate goal-directed behavior through purely causal, mechanical processes.
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    • 2.If teleology can be fully realized in such systems, it requires no non-physical or mysterious explanation.
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