Re: More than one kind of 'causality'?

From: Pete Carlton <pmcarlton.domain.name.hidden>
Date: Mon, 19 Sep 2005 18:01:45 -0700

On Sep 19, 2005, at 1:00 AM, Marc Geddes wrote:

> Here's a speculation:
>
> The model I'm working with for my theory seems to suggest 3
> different fundamental kinds of 'cause and effect'.
>
> The first is physical causality - motion of physical objects
> through space.
> The second is mental causality - agents making choices which
> effect agents
> The third is what I call 'Multiverse causality', a sort of highly
> abtsract 'causality' close to the notion of logical consistency/
> consilience - that which ensures that knowledge has a certain
> ordered 'structure' to it .
>
> Anyone have any thoughts on this?
>

Here's my thought -- isn't it the case that we know enough about how
brains work today that, at the very least, it is a huge overstatement
to refer to the first two types as "different fundamental kinds"? In
other words, I will claim that type 2 is actually nothing more than a
subset of type 1, occurring in particular circumstances. What
evidence goes against this view?

-Pete
Received on Mon Sep 19 2005 - 21:05:39 PDT