Curtis wrote: > Since none of us actually experience causation... > You may want to re-think this statement, Curtis. Apparently you got confused and went over to the transcendentalist point of view without realizing it. If you were a philosophy major at MUM, this is understandable.
But, in fact, everyone experiences Causation. Everyone knows that human excrement always flows downstream. In philosophy, Causation is a relationship that describes and analyses cause and effect. In physics, we get from this the first law of thermodynamics: energy can be neither created nor destroyed, which gives rise to the second law of thermodynamics involving entropy. According to most Western philosophers, Causality denotes a logical relationship between one physical event, the cause, and another physical event, the effect - the cause-effect relationship. In the transcendentalist view, (Mandukya Upanishad, Brahma Sutras, Yoga Vashishta) there is mention of causality, but causality is explained as part of the creation of the universe, a concept which is opposed to the deterministic view of modern science. In a deterministic world-view, there is nothing but Causation, which has been described as a chain of events following one after another according to the law of Causation. "All causes of things are beginnings; that we have scientific knowledge when we know the cause; that to know a thing's existence is to know the reason why it is". - Aristotle "Because of this, that happens". - Gotoma "Looking at the sky, he fell into a ditch". - Punditster
