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Thursday, January 21, 2010
Fresh start Oh yeah I deleted all the old entries. They were only getting in my way. Here are some current thoughts in no particular order, nor with at any attribution to appropriate contributors: My biggest problem is how to disrupt the belief in causation in my life. I can't help ordering my experience into causes and effects even though strict causality is clearly false (it was always unprovable and has been abandoned by physics altogether) I continue to make strong causal links between 'then' and 'now'. I believe this has something to do with our brain development: a case of 'good enough' to get by without being distracting to the point of extinction? I do not like appealing to evolution in this argument since it feels like begging the question. Evolution is not my strong suit, nor is biology for the most part. Are there any animals that fail to link cause and effect? Perhaps it serves no advantage. The unexamined life is the only one that can be lived? Is there an equivalence in non-useful adaptations? Surely not. Okay, not quite as exhaustive a first post as I would have liked but it's too late to continue. Labels: causality, evolution, ramble 0 comments |
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