This post continues previous posts on causes, especially the one here.
Final and formal causes constitute top-down causality, which may lead to efficient and material causes. Material and efficient (mechanism) causes constitute bottom-up causality, which may lead to formal and final causes. Top-down is intentional. Bottom-up is extensional.
The Inverse Causality Principle states that top-down causality is inverse of bottom-up causality.
The Inverse Correspondence Principle states that intentional motion is the inverse of extensional motion and experimentation is the inverse of observation. Similarly, transmission is the inverse of reception, developmental is the inverse of empirical, and time is the inverse of space.
The goal of science is empirical theory. The goal of engineering is development of something practical.
Goal and action go together like form and content or matter.
Consider Galileo dropping two balls, one wooden and one metal, from the tower of Pisa. One observer says it’s a race to the ground. Another observer says it’s an experiment. What is the nature of the balls? Or what does Nature do?
Final and formal causes are the inverse of efficient and material causes.