Neofinalism

The Axiological Cogito -- Description of Finalist Activity -- Finalist Activity and Organic Life -- The Contradictions of Biological Antifinalism -- Finalist Activity and the Nervous System -- The Brain and the Embryo -- Signification of Equipotentiality -- The Reciprocal Illusion of Incarnation and "Material" Existence -- "Absolute Surfaces" and Absolute Domains of Survey -- Absolute Domains and Bonds -- Absolute Domains and Finality -- The Region of the Transspatial and the Transindividual -- The Levels of the Transspatial and Finalist Activity -- The Beings of the Physical World and the Fibrous Structure of the Universe -- The Neomaterialist Theories -- Neo-Darwinism and Natural Selection -- Neo-Darwinism and Genetics -- Organicism and the Dynamism of Finality -- Psycho-Lamarckism -- Theology of Finality.;Neofinalism offers a systematic and lucidly argued treatise that deploys the innovative concepts of self-survey, form, and absolute surface to shape a theory of the virtual and the transspatial. It also makes a compelling plea for a renewed appreciation of the creative activity that organizes spatiotemporal structures and makes possible the emergence of real beings in a dynamic universe.