I was looking through the filosophy threads and didn't see any on causality. I couldn't help myself.
So we've all seen the Matrix. And we're all familiar with the Merovingian. In reloaded (i think) everyone goes to his place to ask for the keymaker. He says something like: you won't get him because i have no reason to give him to you. And then he goes on a shpeal about causality.
Apparently there is a reason for everything. Stuff happens because of cause and effect for a reason. What is the reason for the existence of humand? Of you?
No amount of philosophizing could possibly compensate for the one-dimensional acting of Keanu Reeves, a.k.a. "The Little Wooden Boy."
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Wed 14 Jul, 2004 11:34 am
Re: Thoughts on Causality
Ghendo wrote:
What is the reason for the existence of humand? Of you?
At various times, the following reasons seem to fit:
1. To learn, especially to learn to love one another.
2. To be the consciousness of the universe.
3. To carry water uphill.
4. To ponder what is the reason for existence.
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Wed 14 Jul, 2004 11:35 am
joefromchicago wrote:
No amount of philosophizing could possibly compensate for the one-dimensional acting of Keanu Reeves, a.k.a. "The Little Wooden Boy."
"Aww dude, you are bumming me out now." -Keanu Reeves
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twyvel
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Wed 14 Jul, 2004 12:23 pm
Ghendo
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Apparently there is a reason for everything. Stuff happens because of cause and effect for a reason. What is the reason for the existence of humand? Of you?
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najmelliw
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Thu 15 Jul, 2004 04:25 pm
I thought the true meaning of the term causality is that there is a CAUSE for everything. This doesn't necessarily mean that there is a REASON for everything, I'd say. There may be a cause for the existence of the sun, but is it the same as that there is a reason for it's existence?
The cause merely looks at the origin of a thing to be analyzed. A reason goes deeper then that: It'll also try to give an explanation for said existence.
Naj
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Thu 15 Jul, 2004 09:25 pm
Naj, by a reason for something, as opposed to the cause of its existence, do you refer to its purpose, why it was created?
By cause do you mean the unintended physical determinant of its existence and nothing more?
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Adrian
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Thu 15 Jul, 2004 09:33 pm
Wow Twyvel, that's one of the few times I've read something by you that both;
Made sense,(to me :wink: )
and
I agree with.
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twyvel
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Thu 15 Jul, 2004 09:44 pm
Adrian
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twyvel
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Thu 15 Jul, 2004 09:55 pm
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twyvel
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Fri 16 Jul, 2004 08:27 am
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rufio
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Fri 16 Jul, 2004 05:01 pm
Causality explains a lot, but there's also a lot of room for random chance.
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najmelliw
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Fri 16 Jul, 2004 07:01 pm
Ah yes,
You are correct. That is indeed the way I define those two concepts. Perhaps this sounds somewhat oversensitive or something, but I know there are people who habitually confuse these terms.
Just because you know how something was caused, you don't have the reason for it being there.
Wow Twyvel, that's one of the few times I've read something by you that both;
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