Independently
in 1926 the Russian scientist Alexander Gurwitsch[1]
and the Austrian biologist Paul Alfred Weiss[2]
suggested the existence of a new causal factor, different from classical
causality, which was named morphogenetic field. Apart from the claim that
morphogenetic fields play an important role in the control of morphogenesis
(the development of the shape of the body), neither authors showed how
causality works in these fields.
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