On Tuesday, March 19, 2013 1:38:21 PM UTC-4, John Clark wrote: > > On Tue, Mar 19, 2013 at 1:13 PM, Craig Weinberg > <[email protected]<javascript:> > > wrote: > > > Intimate relation is not causality. The stock market has been famously >> been related to skirt lengths > > > If when skirt lengths changed there was ALWAYS a change in the stock > market in the same direction, and when the stock market changed there was > ALWAYS a change in skirt lengths that preceded it then its true, changing > the length of skirts DOES cause a change in the stock market; and if humans > don't understand how a connection between the two could possibly work > that's just too bad, it wouldn't make it any less true. > > And if all of that were true then dress designers would be the richest > people the world has ever seen. They're not. >
I already went through this with you with the vanilla ice cream example. Correlation, even 100% correlation, does not equal causation. Two unrelated systems can both be related to a third, and I think that must be the case with neurological activity and subjective experience, where the third and fundamental system is sensory-motor capacity, or sense, from which the private and public subsystems are derived. Craig > John K Clark > > > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/everything-list?hl=en. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
