Where are you seeing any teleology? Counting is just switching to a different state whenever a thing happens and performing a certain behavior when a certain state is reached. Time-sensitive behavior is… basically ubiquitous. (Yeah, yeah, “awareness” was a poor word choice.) You can buy counters and clocks at the electronics store! They don’t require any mysterious ghost of anthropomorphism!
Where are you seeing any teleology? Counting is just switching to a different state whenever a thing happens and performing a certain behavior when a certain state is reached. Time-sensitive behavior is… basically ubiquitous. (Yeah, yeah, “awareness” was a poor word choice.) You can buy counters and clocks at the electronics store! They don’t require any mysterious ghost of anthropomorphism!