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It usually comes from Neoscholastics as they would still contend the modern rejection of Final Causality in philosophy. To summarize briefly, the idea of teleological notions in nature was rejected by the early moderns as mental constructs to understand the objects better rather than actual descriptions. Upon trying to discussion the mind-body problem we are now seeing people promote entirely physical systems and so since we swept all other claims of purpose in nature (final causality) under the rug of mental intention we now have to explain the lump itself to effectively maintain these physical systems. To make this worse, information itself inherently involves inferring (which is goal-directed) and so is inherently teleological. And so you're going to have to find a way to effectively argue for the validity of that physical system and Naturalism's rejection of inherent intent without and overcome this. This leads to the common criticism of Eliminative Materialism: "Believing beliefs don't exist".