Doing a little digging, I realized that the idea of “teleological mechanism” from cybernetics is probably a better handle for the idea and will provide a more accessible presentation of the idea. Some decent references:
I don’t know of anywhere that presents the idea quite how I think of it, though. If you read Dreyfus on Heidegger you might manage to pick this out. Similarly I think this idea underlies Sartre’s talk about freedom, but I can’t recall that he explicitly makes the connection in the way I would. To the best of my knowledge philosophers have unfortunately not said enough about this topic because it’s omnipresent in humans and often something that comes up incidentally to considering other things but not something deeply explored for its own sake except when people are confused (cg. Hegel on teleology).
Doing a little digging, I realized that the idea of “teleological mechanism” from cybernetics is probably a better handle for the idea and will provide a more accessible presentation of the idea. Some decent references:
https://www.jstor.org/stable/184878
https://www.jstor.org/stable/2103479
https://nyaspubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/toc/17496632/50/4
I don’t know of anywhere that presents the idea quite how I think of it, though. If you read Dreyfus on Heidegger you might manage to pick this out. Similarly I think this idea underlies Sartre’s talk about freedom, but I can’t recall that he explicitly makes the connection in the way I would. To the best of my knowledge philosophers have unfortunately not said enough about this topic because it’s omnipresent in humans and often something that comes up incidentally to considering other things but not something deeply explored for its own sake except when people are confused (cg. Hegel on teleology).