Thanks for this comment, Postsynaptic. I think Kauffman represents an emerging trend in science and philosophy, one I would call a re-emergence of top down thinking. Many are struggling with the questions of apparent design in our physical world, and the immense coincidences that had to happen for life and intelligence to appear. But, they do NOT want anything close to the traditional ideas of God to reappear. So, they come up with all kinds of alternatives that could explain the appearance of design or intent without a person or an actual designer. Kauffman's ideas on emergence, chaos, etc., fit this. So do Thomas Nagels "third way" of teleology. I was surprised to see in a fairly recent book by Stephen Hawkings student and collaborator, Hertog I believe, who said Hawking's final theory involved top down organization of the universe. Not God, but another way of bringing in some kind of impersonal order and agency. Bohm and Hiley also offered what can be seen as a top down explanation in their implicate order idea.