On Thursday, March 21, 2013 9:42:34 AM UTC-4, Roger Clough wrote:
Leibnizian causation differs from most other forms of causation in that
no forces are involved, only ideas, although from any objective viewpoint
it might seem as if the usual types of forces cause the event.
This makes sense if the resultant situation is a meaningful one
because generated by the dominant monad.
In that respect it is similar to meaningful causation (synchronicity) as
Jung
envisionized it, wherein the forces are meanings, just as monads
are grouped according to meanings. Hence meaning or synchronicity
becomnes a causal determinant. and perhaps dominated by the
most powerful meanings, whatever that mean sin a Darwinian sense.
Meanings arwe in some ways similar to relational quauntum histories,
I think you are on the right track, although I would differentiate between
meaning, idea, and causation. Ideas and meanings can inspire motives, but
only actual motive investment - will - causes changes that can be publicly
experienced.
Quantum histories are an impersonal, third person view of the 'places where
meaning would be', but ultimately quantum theory has nothing to say about
meaning. We can try to reverse engineer meaning or will to quantum
functions, but it is really like looking for the dog's face from the wrong
end of the dog.
Craig
Dr. Roger Clough NIST (ret.) 3/21/2013
Coincidences are God's way of remaining anonymous.
- Albert Einstein
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