On Tuesday, March 19, 2013 2:24:40 PM UTC-4, Evgenii Rudnyi wrote: > > On 19.03.2013 19:17 Craig Weinberg said the following: > > > > > > 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. > > > > In a way everything is just regularities. For example a good short talk > in this respect > > Where do the Laws of Nature Come From? (Bas van Fraassen) > > http://www.closertotruth.com/video-profile/Where-do-the-Laws-of-Nature-Come-From-Bas-van-Fraassen-/1372 > > > Nice. I agree with everything they are saying (well, mainly because it agrees with what I have been saying...especially about symmetry :)
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