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It is not just any forms but very specific forms that tend to
get actualized because, in Nature, there is a constantly
repeated pattern of things developing to a particular stage
and then no farther. Living things develop to maturity and
then do no more than reproduce themselves in potentiality.
At maturity, living things reproduce by generating seeds
from which new individuals of the same species grow.
In seed-stage, the potentiality of one thing is absolutely
different from the potentiality of another. No thing can be
generated by that which is only potentially (not actually) of
that same type. An acorn has the potentiality to become an
oaktree but its potentiality for this development could not
have been produced by something which only had the
potentiality of becoming an oaktree. (Acorns can't directly
produce other acorns) Only an actual oaktree could produce
an acorn. This is why Aristotle thought that biological
species are fixed, unchanging and eternal.
This analysis of change leads Aristotle to a theory of
The ultimate cause of motion (the Prime Mover).
Here is a highly condensed version of his main argument:
1) Motion is the actualization of potentiality.
2) A thing's potentiality cannot actualize itself. Only that
which is actually F can cause a thing which is potentially F
to become actually F.