Pass the dressing.
> We have moved on to causality as a part of determinism (or not). That
> is the temporal or "domino" sequence of events which describe our
> reality. I have read in this thread that the "I disappears at the
> individual human consciousness. I also stated that the "I" appears in
> the Social Level (but will leave that for another time).
>
> The concept of the "I" disappearing can also be used in the cause
> effect paradigm. We can say that the personal "I" disappears because
> it can be relegated to earlier causative principles and reduced to
> co-dependent arising. In this way, it can be considered to "exist" at
> the interface of the variety of arisings that delineate it. It
> requires the conflict between the Yin and the Yang to exist, and has
> no inherent existence.
>
> So now we turn to causality. We speak of the past creating the
> future. This must happen in the present. However, the present can be
> said not to exist. It is not a point in time, but a point reduced
> infinitely until it completely disappears, much in the same way the
> "I" vanishes. We can point to the present as that which exists
> between the past and the future. But, through infinite reduction of
> time into smaller and smaller units, that existence has no time, but
> simply becomes an abstract concept.
>
> We can therefore state that the present only exists at the interface
> of the past and the future, and cannot exist without these temporal
> concepts. So, the present disappears when pointed to. If we then
> move on to causation, we find a lot of logical problems. Causation
> cannot be attributed to the present moment, and therefore it also
> disappears on analysis.
>
> We bring in the Zen of David H.'s thread. That is awareness of the
> perfection of the present. We could then say that Dynamic Quality is
> the present. It therefore does not exist by standard terminology of
> existence. Dynamic Quality cannot be anywhere other than the present
> since as we have seen, static quality exists in all other times.
>
> All of this, in my opinion, argues in favor of Free-Will.
>
> Regards,
>
> Mark ("118", ununoctium the heaviest static element yet made by man).
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