Teleology

You and Adam were starting to go down a rabbit hole there about your tikiology.

Teliology.

Yeah.

Tikiology.

In the language of cybernetics, homeostatic regulation can be expressed as a problem of feedback, taking into account the information about the difference between the current and the target state of the organism, and then using that to move closer to a desired state.

In 1943, the father of cybernetics, Norbert Wiener, co-authored a landmark paper titled Behavior, Purpose, and Teleology.

He argued that both machines and organisms could be studied from a behaviorist perspective using the same functional concepts of feedback, control, and communication.

This means analyzing the inputs and outputs while disregarding internal processes within the system.

Instead, the narrator writes her own explanation in her memoir, and it is a deeply teleological theory.

Teleology is the explanation of phenomena by the purpose they serve rather than by postulated causes.

Right.

The girl theorizes that her subconscious brain somehow realized that there were no men left in the world, that reproduction was impossible and humanity was ending.

Exactly.

Teleological refers to the end purpose or the ultimate goal.

So when day is used in the New Testament regarding God's plans, it means that an event is absolutely necessary because it is rooted directly in the eternal sovereign decree of God.

That has to happen.