Tuesday, February 6, 2007
Causality
It was interesting doing some wikipedia searches on causality and reading about how the thinking and reasoning about causality by scientists and theorists have continued to change over the years. ... that the older assumptions that A causes, and must precede, B (or in otherwords that B exists because of the existance of A) and that both "must be in spacial contact or connected by a chain of immediate things in contact." These historical assumptions could be renamed "Probable laws of causality," because it looks like once you throw Chance in there, "Laws of Causality" go out the window. Something totally unexpected could cause B, just as A had before. Or B could be produced just milliseconds before A was assumed to cause it. As Bohr concluded in his debate with Einstein, there is always going to be a place for uncertainty in quantum mechanics. I think this would go for human (and all animal behavior for that matter). There is always going to be a place for "we just don't know what exactly is going to happen or what exactly caused this to happen."
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