(June 6, 2016 at 2:27 pm)Jörmungandr Wrote: What do you mean by 'cause change'? … cause is nothing more than an a posteriori derived relationship between two entities. It's not a thing in itself.
Are you talking about relationships between two physical objects or events in succession? You seem to be making it an either/or whereas, I see it as both/and. Causes are connected by being party to one event. For example:
Since a ball striking the window is simultaneous with that window breaking, there is no extension spatially or temporally between events. They are the same event differently described. Within that one event, the baseball serves as a cause because it changes the glass from a whole into pieces. The glass also serves as a cause because it changes the ball (loss of momentum, altering its trajectory, etc.).
(June 6, 2016 at 2:27 pm)Jörmungandr Wrote: Why do you want to exclude the creation of the universe from your observations?
Because the term creation carries too much baggage, like an implied starting point followed by an accidental series of events. My concern is about why things realize potentials in co-temporal, essentially ordered sequences.