Definition of Entelesophy

Entelesophy
Entelesophy is a philosophy of intrinsic directedness. It proposes that all entities possess some degree of internal tendency toward interaction, persistence, transformation, or realization. At the physical level this appears as lawful disposition; at the chemical level as affinity and constraint; at the biological level as function and self-maintenance; at the cognitive level as intention and value; and at the civilizational level as explicit telos. Entelesophy rejects both supernatural teleology and reductionist purposelessness. It argues that higher purposes emerge through covolution: the mutual shaping of entities, environments, information, and constraints over time.
 

From entelechy + sophy.

Meaning:

Entelesophy is the philosophy of intrinsic directedness: the view that all entities possess internal tendencies toward realization, and that complex purposes emerge through covolution among such entities.

Entelesophy is a naturalistic metaphysical and scientific framework in which purpose is treated as a graded property of reality, beginning as physical disposition, becoming biological function, developing into cognitive intention, and expanding into cultural, technological, and civilizational telos through covolution.

Core thesis

The central claim should be:

Purpose is not an external supernatural plan imposed on matter; purpose is the internal directedness of entities as they interact, constrain, select, and transform one another.

It says:

Particles do not “intend.”
Particles have dispositions.
Atoms have bonding potentials.
Molecules have structural affordances.
Cells have self-maintaining functions.
Organisms have adaptive goals.
Minds have intentions.
Civilizations have explicit purposes.

That hierarchy is the heart of the framework.