A tree will grow, apex, decay, fall, and then rot.
A rock will roll down a hill during an avalance.
A moon will rotate around a planet.
The English term “Will” is pervasive, prolific, and demonstrates how pervasive the Abrahamic / Christian perspective is, to presume that inorganic, innate & elemental Material (Matter) has a “Will”, and therefore an Intention. This has become clear over the debates about Determinism and Free-Will during the last year or two on ILP. The false presumption, is that inorganic and non-living matter must “act as-if” it were a living thing. And this would be its “Motivation” in the physical sense of its Momentum. I recently made two threads about this: Biomorphic Fallacy and Deterministic Fallacy, demonstrating the irrationality, confusion, and illogic of these presumptions. People need to rewind, back to our great European ancestor Isaac Newton. Matter and Energy are both conserved (as the same thing, same phenomenon), neither are Created nor Destroyed, and so this applies directly to the Physics of Causality.
Things can only have “Causes” insofar as they are part of greater “Processes”. This means, there is no perfect Vacuum nor Absolution. There is never a perfect ‘section’ or isolation of Movements or Motion. Thus Mankind’s notion of Causality is always Artificial and Derivative, of a greater context, greater process, and greater interaction of matter and energy. Thus the “It will” of a rock, is not referring to the rock as a “causal agent”, but as an approximation on behalf of the Subject. It’s you determining the process of causality, and nothing inherent in the rock, nothing inherent in any other matter (even Celestial objects), and even nothing inherent in other life forms. Rather these approximations are Ideological, and bent toward the Motive of its origin (You). Most of humanity does not have a sufficient enough degree of Self-Conscious, to become aware of his / her own Bias in this regard. Thus the ‘Agency’ is abstracted, out of oneself, and onto some notion of Divinity or Prime Mover (God / Determinism).
I’ll be brief about this post, because it is over-crowded with philosophical content, that I cannot justify within a few sentences or paragraphs, but would take a series of books to explain fully enough to make “common” sense. I’ll just leave it for now for those who are philosophically enough adept to break it down and apply it throughout the course of Western Civilization, Art, Culture, Physics, Math, Science, etc.
Another point, replace “Will” with “Is going to”, in the first few examples.
A tree is going to grow, apex, decay, fall, and then rot.
A rock is going to roll down a hill during an avalance.
A moon is going to rotate around a planet.
Consider this distinction, the object “is going to” (moving toward) a destination, in “the future”. This is a subsection of Determinism and Deterministic belief / faith. People have presumptions about Causality, which can be deeply flawed, and therefore, deeply manipulated. And it is manipulated, hence the demand / desire / need for Monotheistic faiths, along with their Mono-origin Universalism. That for example…all must come from a Prime Mover, All is Created, All is Determined, All is Caused, or the secular (per)version of “The Big Bang” which begins with the same premise, and ends with the same conclusion—that inorganic and innate matter “must have conscious perception” as the basis of its Existence.
This is false. Essence comes after Existence, not before, not reversed in order. Body before Mind. Body is the foundation of the Mind.