A new name has popped up. Bruce Lipton. He says that consciousness or intelligence exists in the cells. Our bodies form according to a preexisting field made by our cells. Our bodies are like cities, communities of individual citizen cells that grouped for purposes of improved communication. He brings in the fractal theory of evolution.
This resembles the vortex theory of gravity which says that the planets form at preexisting concentrations of gravity--the gravity fields would be there even if the planets had not formed.