| Topic: | Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Cause and effect and living beings |
| Posted by: | nj |
| Date/Time: | 19/12/2003 00:45:59 |
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Hello, Mr. Messier. You wrote: 1. "I don't understand how cause and effect presupposes anything to repeat. Even if an event occurs only once and leads to another, isn't causality still in effect?" I think that's a great point to make. Wish I'd made it myself. You wrote: 2. "...I can't for the life of me figure out how a living system escapes the law of cause and effect..." Yes. Figuring out what specific relationship of causes to effects, for what particular participants in the cause-effect relationship, can be a challenge. To notice that cause-effect relationships occur, is not a challenge. Humans notice, and test, cause-effect relationships, without effort, even unconsciously. We couldn't NOT notice, perceive, and believe in them, if we tried. -nj |