Table 1.

The three major forms of causation: physical, biological, and deductive. Each relies on the previous one to enable its emergence.

	Causation	Agency	Outcome	References
C1	Physical	Physical laws	Determinist	Equation (1)
C2	Biological	Goal-seeking, Selection	Adaptive	Equations (11,18)
C3	Deductive	Logical argument	Planned outcomes	Equation (32)