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Referenced for Aristotelian science, practical wisdom, and formal/final causation; contrast to modern Newtonian paradigm.
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- Mechanistic Causation (Newtonian Model)contradictsTraditional efficient causation paradigm; Juarrero argues it is inadequate for understanding intentional action and self-organizing systems.
- AnimismstudiesThe belief in spirits in natural entities, interpreted by Alexander as a direct experience of the I in things at high intensity.
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- De Anima (On the Soul)authoredAristotle's work describing soul as causal form of physical substrate; cited as proto-functionalist and animist
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