hat <U>by analogy</U> suggest
the pursuit and satisfaction of goals by organisms or minds. The 'goal'
may simply be the thermodynamic end-state of a physical process that is
relaxing toward equilibrium-regardless of whether that end-state is known,
specifiable, or even meaningful in advance, or of whether it is uniquely
implicit in some set of mathematical equations. It is also true that it
is premature to absolutely exclude the possibility of teleological phenomena
or of "final causes" from physical nature