‘Action at a distance’ cannot be eliminated: something draws something else closer, something feels drawn. This is the fundamental fact: compared to this, the mechanistic notion of pressing and pushing is merely a hypothesis based on sight and touch, even if it does serve as a regulative hypothesis for the world of sight!
Compare to the idea in 'I am a strange loop' or Douglas Harding's 'Headless Way' that one 'level' of reality informs another. I.e. The external/objective and internal/subjective.
ironically the 'objective' is hypothetical/inferred whilst the subjective is experientially concrete.

