Science is about causes happening and effects stemming from those causes. Goal setting is about changing causes to reach desired effects. In goal setting you are not observing effects as in science. You are dictating them.
Natural selection appears to be a goal to sustain life. Strict cause and effect should have no goals. I am not arguing that natural selection is false here. But I certainly don't mind asserting that nature has intended goals. There's a term already in existence for this assertion - teleology. And there's also a term for its counterargument - teleonomy.
When I asked Copilot AI about teleology, it suggested an argument based in teleonomy that variations in species occur randomly, and environments filter out the variations so that only the successful variations survive. Sure seems to be more of a deterministic argument than a free will argument.
But I believe that the striving we experience in life goes far beyond unintentional programming. Can't prove it of course. But I can assert it vehemently.
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