RE: MD acausal/ psuedo-science / wonder

From: Erin N. (enoonan@kent.edu)
Date: Sun Dec 08 2002 - 17:02:28 GMT

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    >>Well I put it as acausal because something way
    >>out there in the universe is supposedly affecting
    >>my behavior. Acausality is not the opposite of causality.
    >>erin
    >
    >Erin,
    >Didn't you just get through saying that you agreed with my defn
    >of acausal:
    >"Two events are said to be acausal if they are related, but not
    >causally."
    >Now you are saying that acausal events are causal afterall (by
    >something out there that is, err, affecting behavior). Which is
    >it?
    >Glenn

    Well I guess in my mind the opposite of causal
    would be chance no--no relationship.
    Acausal there is a connection, relationsip but
    its not A -B causality.
    The idea of acausality is the interconnectedness
    of everything.

    Lots of things affecting behavior.

    erin

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