When
studying the strengths of noncategorial dispositions then, introspection,
like natural and social science, seems bound to be measuring an amalgam of final and efficient
causality, whose relative contributions to a given feeling are probably impossible
in principle to distinguish, even for omniscience.
But well - designed
studies looking at telomere length and signs of health
like resting heart rate have begun to provide new details concerning telomeres» effects on biological processes, which may help us establish
causality in the future.