From: Erin N. (enoonan@kent.edu)
Date: Thu Dec 19 2002 - 05:21:22 GMT
>>I didn't like "linear causality" because it was making
>>it sound like I was describing some special kind of
>>causality.
>
>But that's the impression you left when you wrote:
>ERIN: <earlier>
>'In other words "acausal" is causal, except when it's A -B causal.'
Where did I say that? The only thing I could find that may have
led to that interpretation to that is "Acausal there is a connection,
relationsip but its not A -B causality."
>In your next mail I got the impression that AB meant linear. You
>said something confusing about dropping the AB and there's no
>difference, but this didn't make sense to me, as your sentence
>would now say:
>'In other words "acausal" is causal, except when it's causal.'
I don't know where I wrote this sentence so
I can't help ya.
I put this quote to show you why I described the
relationship seemed to linear.
If that word is odd to you I wanted to see if
you had a problem with this quote.
>>
>>"Causality is defined very loosely, as a 'chain of cause and effect.' This
>>means a series of links, in which each one is firmly locked into its two
>>neighbors so that the whole chanin is able to stretch out indefinitely in
both
>>directions. In this way, every event in the universe is causally linked to
an
>>event that comes before it and to one that comes after. There can be no room
>>in this 'creation' for free will, creativity, or synchronicity.
>>
>>This, of course, does not describe causality sufficiently because a single
>>event can be at the junction of many interlinked "chains" of causes which
all
>>act upon the result, or a single event can branch out into many "chains" and
>>be at the root of many later and varied events. But, for the present
purpose,
>>the idea of causality is that one thing leads to another and another and so
>>on."
>
>
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