Metaphysical Humanism and the Laws of Being, part XXIV—The Law of Intention, part I

The abbey Church of St, Jouin de Marnes

detail of a capital

Photograph by the author

The Law of Intention

Intention, as the termite biologist Scott Turner puts it, is one of the central questions about why life behaves the way it does:

“… We may be imagining that termite colonies are deliberate simply because we’re human. But…if you deny the intentional beha…