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Cause

#9655601 - 01/21/09 10:21 PM (17 years, 7 months ago)

in the 'objective world' there is no such thing as a cause. When we observe some evidence of energy exchange through the universe, or essentially when we observe any change to the universe, depending on how important the thing is that changed, our brain will try to work out what caused the change to have occured.

now when we consider the successful trait of understanding the 'causes' for an evolving species of ape, the vast majority of understandable and observable changes in the universe were indeed changes 'caused' more or less directly by some knowable being/person.

In order to get a grip of 'why' things change, the human brain utilised its social meta-layer to tag every change to a cause, or an 'instigator'. this resultantly was the begginings of spirituality, for this metalayer of generating instigators developed in line with human awareness shift on consciousness and identity. With these facets of human thought, all changes in the universe resultantly befome associated with some sort of social tag and these social tags become personalised depending on whether they are multifaceted or not.

However, the lines of cause are not as simple as what causes what. We have a notion of successing moments being single compressable events, and depending on how well someone understands the laws of nature, will result in grander and grander scales of compressability.

eg when we use science to describe the universe, we are merely compressing a range of changes int eh universe into single events that can be described with numbers.

In practice, we never really do this unless highly experienced in your domain. Science has a lot of rules for observation and consistency.

real life aint like that, and in real life almost all events get linked back to some instigator, some person or group of people. When things move around in the environment, the human brain tries to assess who the instigator is. It tries to dissociate environmental forces (which are identified as spirits or gods) from visible, knowable instigators such as animals and other people.

this system for percieving instigation is highly complex.. it it involves discerning who is in control of what..

Now, the reason why there arent actually any causes is... well if you knew all of the laws of nature then you would be able to compress all of reality into a single event.. if you knew what the formula was for the universe, as well as how it becomes instantiated in such a vibrant way as to house infinite consciousness, then you would be able to remove cause all together from the ontology.

however when you are dealing with a world that you cannot completely comprehend.. it becomes highly efficient to simply assume that persons have free will.. because although their will is actually determinable according to outside forces across their whole life, no one will ever be able to get a hold on these factors and use them to determine the world or compress an event into appropriate factors.

Because of this efficiency, our human brains are the result of the surviving humans who happened upon this efficiency and bred together many times. These surviving humans did not have to worry about concepts of higher science and the sorts of questions that you can only reach when you have a third world country or some sort of poverty supporting your economy.

What WAS the most important thing to hold in the brain is an understanding of which humans are in control and how much of their action is predictable verses creative. IE - assessing the instigators of change (or consistency where you would expect change, eg guards standing still suggests that they are not going to personally reason with you but instead are following some other person's will)

There is a resonance of this efficiency in our current way of thinking.

we still think about the universe in terms of 'cause'.. because essentially we can never actually learn enough about the world to compress all of its events.. we have to deal with the universe efficiently and assume different levels of independent will.

Thus we have two main factors of 'cause'

we have an identification of where a string of moments/ an event began, which is considered an instigator.

The instigator may vary in level of creative thought.

Divine instigation is both highly creative (unpredictable) and shows itself through many events.

This to me is shown all across humanity.

For the ancient greeks, creativity occured when the gods inspired humans.

for many empires and kingdoms, the leader, the supreme ruler, was considered god-like.

In animistic cultures, such as japanese and north american, warriors were considered to have divine, further permeating spirits

We will never know everything about the universe so there will always be things for people to see divinity in.

As well as this, our human brains as a whole will not give up on this notion of cause and of things causing other things to happen.. to science all it seem to be is an orderly flow of energy throughout the universe, and the evidence that we get from the changes that occur according to the energy transfer.. but the majority of science does not provide a great survival advantage when in human-controlled environments, and you need to quickly assess which humans are most associated with different aspects of change (or controlled consistency)

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