#Causality

[kyborginstitut]

Für unser Karma sind wir immer selbst verantwortlich. Kausalität mag den denkern eher ein Begriff sein, beschreibt aber das selbe. Yogi Bhajan sagte einmal zu Harald: "Was auch immer passiert, Du hast es selbst herbeigeführt! Und Du hattest einen Grund dafür. Wenn es Dir nicht gefällt, musst Du erforschen, wo die Ursachen liegen. Wenn Du die Ursachen erkennst, lösen sich Deine Probleme auf. Also fass Dich in Geduld, denn Geduld zahlt sich aus!" Also übernehmt Verantwortung für euer Handeln und Hier sein und gestaltet diese Welt bewusst und konstruktiv mit. Es liegt in Euren Händen. Herzliche Grüße, Tobias Alke - Ausschnitt aus Das Erfolgskonzept / Mental Basics (eBook) aus dem Kyborg Institut - ISBN: 978-3-924722-01-2 oder siehe Apple Books bzw. kindle.

[selfawarepatterns]

Entropy transformers

What is the relationship between information, causation, and entropy? The other day, I was reading a post from Corey S. Powell on how we are all ripples of information. I found it interesting because it resonated with my own understanding of information (i.e. it flattered my biases). We both seem to see information as something active rather than passive. In my case I see it fundamentally…

[worldboywhump]

Casualty S:36 Ep:36 “I need you to stay with me”

[philosophybits]

All effects follow not with like certainty from their supposed causes. Some events are found, in all countries and all ages, to have been constantly conjoined together: Others are found to have been more variable, and sometimes to disappoint our expectations; so that, in our reasonings concerning matter of fact, there are all imaginable degrees of assurance, from the highest certainty to the lowest species of moral evidence.

David Hume, An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding

[turiyatitta]

The Eternal Now

Understanding the Convergence of Time and CausalityIn the realm of spiritual and philosophical inquiry, the concepts of time and causality often lead us down intricate paths of understanding. Consider the profound idea that the past, present, and future are not separate entities, but rather simultaneous occurrences, manifesting in the eternal ‘now’. This perspective invites us to view every…

[anaxerneas]

The totality of my experiences is bound together dynamically with the objects of the common-sense world. This holds first of all causally. There is a mechanical side to my experiences of the objects in the world and of the ways in which they impinge upon my own body and upon its sensory organs (and one possible criticism of recent research in 'naive physics' is that its account of the dynamics of the common-sense world is restricted to features of this sort). But experiences and objects are bound together dynamically also in a second sense: the objects of this world, in being experienced, exert additional positive and negative forces upon me, subtle but compelling forces of attraction and repulsion, belonging not to the sphere of causality but to that of human (and animal) salience.

When I perceive things and persons and surrounding circumstances I am determined (automatically, which is to say: non-deliberatively) by what Husserl calls a "web of motivations." A skyscraper steers my regard onto itself through its special form. A butterfly draws attention to itself through its beautiful colour or texture. The noise of the cars out there makes me close the window. The glass of beer over here makes me reach out my arm to grasp it. "In short, in my theoretical, emotional, and practical behaviour - in my theoretical experience and thinking, in my position-taking as to pleasure, enjoyment, hoping, wishing, desiring, wanting - I feel myself conditioned by the matter in question". (Hua IV, 140)

The object motivates the subject: it 'intrudes on the subject' and stimulates him or her in a wide range of different though characteristically understandable and familiar ways. There are also examples of purely psychic motivation. Thus I can be motivated to do this and that by an idea or a memory which occurs to me independently of my present experience of external objects. Indeed, as Husserl points out, everything that goes on in my mind is linked together through relations of motivation of this sort: through relations of significance. I surmise that A because I know that B. I conclude that D because I discover that E and F. I desire that G because I learn that H, and so on.

Barry Smith, "Common Sense", originally published in The Cambridge Companion to Husserl

Note that the causal intervolvement of mind and body is quite different from the motivational relations here discussed: "the physiological processes in the sense organs, in the nerve cells and in the ganglia, do not motivate me... What I do not 'know,' what does not stand over against me in my lived experiences, in my representing, thinking and acting, as the represented, perceived, remembered, thought, etc., does not 'determine' me as a mind. And what is not intentionally included in my experiences, even if unattended or implicit, does not motivate me, not even unconsciously." (Hua IV, 230f.)

[infinitesofnought]

It appears, however, that the oscillation is not equal, and that as a rule the schizoid pole is potential in relation to the actual paranoiac pole (how can we count on art and science except as potentialities, since their actuality is easily controlled by the formations of sovereignty?). This results from the fact that the two poles of unconscious libidinal investment do not maintain the same relationship, nor the same form of relationship, with the preconscious investments of interest. On the one hand, in fact, the investment of interest fundamentally conceals the paranoiac investment of desire, and reinforces it as much as it conceals it: it covers over the irrational character of the paranoiac investment under an existing order of interests, of causes and means, of aims and reasons; or else the investment of interest itself gives rise to and creates those interests that rationalize the paranoiac investment; or yet again, an effectively revolutionary preconscious investment fully maintains a paranoiac investment at the level of the libido, to the extent that the new socius continues to subordinate the entire production of desire in the name of the higher interests of the revolution and the inevitable sequences of causality. In the other case, the preconscious interest must on the contrary discover the necessity for a different sort of investment, and must perform a kind of rupture with causality as well as a calling in question of aims and interests. ...Subject-groups on the other hand have as their sole cause a rupture with causality, a revolutionary line of escape; and even though one can and must assign the objective factors, such as the weakest links, within causal series that made such a rupture possible, only what is of the order of desire and its irruption accounts for the reality this rupture assumes at a given moment, in a given place.

– Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari, Anti-Oedipus: Capitalism and Schizophrenia

[comradewisdom]

...one should help oneself to 'cause' and 'effect' only as pure concepts, that is to say as conventional fictions for the purpose of designation and mutual understanding—not of explanation.

Nietzsche

[chriswhodrawsstuff]

This is what I got.

It’s Friday, the 22nd March in the vicinity of the Hasting and St Leonards on Sea seafront at approximately 9pm and something exciting is about the happen… I’m about to finish the Lego kit I got for Christmas! Yay! I am also watching the Prime of Miss Jean Brodie where you can watch a very misguided woman screw up not only the minds and the lives of her younger and more gullible charges but her…

[lettersfromaltus]

as i rest my body beside grace, my mind finds its way to the time before demigods and divine crusades. before the blade. before even the Academy. before this thing that i have now become. where once i would step slowly through the woodlands, i now tread without thought. where once i would hunt for herb and fungus, i now hunt for beast and baron. and yet despite my cruelty, the flora and fauna still speak with me. the eagles and owls still tell me their secrets. sprouts remain quelled as i pass. i am allowed still, to be among them as i once was. to be as of the forest. simply, to be. it is through them that i remember who i am. it is through them that my soul is kept. it is through them that i hope to find my way back.

[shadowanima]

[philosophybits]

Animals are not guided in [causal] inferences by reasoning: Neither are children: Neither are the generality of mankind, in their ordinary actions and conclusions: Neither are philosophers themselves, who, in all the active parts of life, are, in the main, the same with the vulgar, and are governed by the same maxims.

David Hume, An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding

[selfawarepatterns]

Causal completeness

It seems like theories that are causally complete are better than ones with gaps. In thinking about this, I’m reminded of a Psyche article I shared a few years ago on fostering an open mind. One of their pieces of advice resonates with an outlook I’ve had for some time. If embarking on a full-on explanation sounds impractical or overly arduous, there is a shorthand version you can try. In 2016,…

[omg-erika]

Investigator infected by the panic virus.

by Dr.Harald Wiesendanger– Klartext What the mainstream media is hiding Amazing: Even the nation’s top TV teacher is now spreading fake news. The “exponential growth” with which he teaches his audience of millions to be frightened best characterizes the panic viruses with which he infected himself. A 9-minute speech has been going viral since March 20, 2020, in which the nation’s TV…

[comradewisdom]

Further conceive, I beg, that a stone, while continuing in motion, should be capable of thinking and knowing, that it is endeavoring, as far as it can, to continue to move. Such a stone, being conscious merely of its own endeavor and not at all indifferent, would believe itself to be completely free, and would think that it continued in motion solely because of its own wish. This is that human freedom, which all boast that they possess, and which consists solely in the fact, that men are conscious of their own desire, but are ignorant of the causes whereby that desire has been determined.

Baruch Spinoza