Having, alas, been one of the catalysts for this thread by asking "who
believes in causality" at a FRIAM meeting, I do occasionally agree with Nick and
think the thread has wandered, perhaps not "emerged". As St. Nick so aptly
expressed: it is about repeating patterns. Ultimately "deep" (to borrow a term
from ecology) causality, which should include quantum analysis, is unknowable
given the limits of science and indeed our minds (certainly beyond the
limits of my few remaining brain cells and synapses). Deep causality, like
ecology, posits a complex chain of linked occurrences or flows; in some ways
"event" is a concept not a reality. Perhaps "causality", like agent based models,
is a very useful tool which permits us to deal with what is inside and outside
ourselves.
Does this make sense? Does it "cause" Nick's eyebrows to twitch?
Paul
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