Is There a Third Way Available?

It is impossible for the human mind to conceive a mode of action whose categories would differ from those which determine our own actions. Whether there are, or can be, somewhere other beings, superhuman or sub human, who think and act in a different way,. We must restrict our endeavors to the study of human action. For the human mind, there is no third way available. The pan mechanistic world view is committed to a methodological monism. It acknowledges only mechanistic causality because it attributes to it alone any cognitive value. And so change can be conceived as the outcome either of the operation of mechanistic causability or of purposeful behavior.