On 18.06.2012 21:56 Craig Weinberg said the following:
On Monday, June 18, 2012 3:12:35 PM UTC-4, Evgenii Rudnyi wrote:
Do you have a good definition of 'cause'?
Any change originating from beyond your own direct participation, ie,
the consequence of any motive other than your own.
The q
Evgeniy: Hawkins may require "cause and effect" we just don't know "how
many" of those are working? We select in our known model the most likely
initiating "cause" while many others may act from the still
unknown/unknowable infinite 'complexity' background "out there" (and "in
here") as well, some
On Monday, June 18, 2012 3:12:35 PM UTC-4, Evgenii Rudnyi wrote:
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> Do you have a good definition of 'cause'?
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Any change originating from beyond your own direct participation, ie, the
consequence of any motive other than your own.
Craig
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On 18.06.2012 16:39 John Clark said the following:
On Sun, Jun 17, 2012 Evgenii Rudnyi wrote:
But then why to talk that every event has a cause?
I don't know what you're talking about. I never said everything had
a cause, in fact I have a strong hunch that some things happen for no
cause b
On Sun, Jun 17, 2012 Evgenii Rudnyi wrote:
> But then why to talk that every event has a cause?
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I don't know what you're talking about. I never said everything had a
cause, in fact I have a strong hunch that some things happen for no cause
but I could be wrong about that. However I am most c
On Sun, Jun 17, 2012 at 07:42:08PM +0200, Evgenii Rudnyi wrote:
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> By the way, I believe that in Grand Design, Hawkins is talking about
> cause and effect.
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5 points on Baez's crackpot index for quoting Hawking's mispelt name:
http://math.ucr.edu/home/baez/crackpot.html (item 8).
(Couldn't
On 6/17/2012 8:03 AM, Evgenii Rudnyi wrote:
Collingwood has shown that what we find nowadays as self-evident has started with Kant
only (just a bit more than 200 years ago).
p. 328 "(a) That every event has a cause,
(b) That the cause of an event is a previous event,
(c) That (a) and (b) are kn
On 17.06.2012 17:15 John Clark said the following:
On Sun, Jun 17, 2012 at 11:03 AM, Evgenii Rudnyi
wrote:
For me personally, it is a puzzle why modern physics still needs
that every event has a cause.
I don't know what you're talking about. Modern physics does not say
every event has a caus
On Sun, Jun 17, 2012 at 11:03 AM, Evgenii Rudnyi wrote:
> For me personally, it is a puzzle why modern physics still needs that
> every event has a cause.
I don't know what you're talking about. Modern physics does not say every
event has a cause, in fact it says the exact opposite.
John K C
In his book An Essay on Metaphysics in Part IIIc Causation, Collingwood
has considered what could mean that every event must have a cause. This
could be interesting for a discussion on free will, as Collingwood shows
that causation presupposes free will. In other words, if free will is to
be ab
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