Hi Magnus
Good points below. How does an atom experience
gaining another electron in its shell? Who knows.
Can electrical changes have consciousness?
They seem to in brains, made of atoms.
So why not in atoms? Although atoms in brains
must be very different to atoms in rocks.Yet also
related.
David M
Hi again
[Magnus]
If we say "B values the POST-condition which results from A", then
the quality event...has to be performed before B can value the result or
not.
Craig
> This is helpful, pointing out that the result must be valued BEFORE it
will
occur. But still it is the POST-condition (= the effect = the iron
filings moving
toward the magnet) that is valued, not the PRE-condition (= the iron
filings
lying inert).
So we have: 'A causes B' is to say 'B is the effect of A' is to say 'B is
the valued
POST-condition which results from A (so it occurs)'.
One more thing, if we take a similar event in a higher level, such as the
biological, we can get something like:
A cell values the taste of a protein, and eats it.
I think we should view these different types of events in a very analog
manner. When a cell values the taste of a protein, we see the eating part
as a separate event, which is a semi-direct consequence of the first
evaluation event.
On the other hand, we don't really see the "so it occurs"-part of an
inorganic event as a separate event, but perhaps we should? The iron
filings value movement toward the magnet, therefore it moves towards it.
Another thing, since the quality event is supposed to be at the absolute
core of our reality, it itself is the source of causality and even time,
so I'm not even sure it is possible/desirable to involve words like
"cause" and "result" when talking about the quality event since they
presume some kind of linear time.
Magnus
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