RE: Causation, Mind, and Psionics
September 10, 2013 at 7:59 pm
(This post was last modified: September 10, 2013 at 8:05 pm by Neo-Scholastic.)
(September 9, 2013 at 9:45 pm)bennyboy Wrote: First of all, I want to see links for this, because I'm pretty dubious that these results are generally acceptedNot really generally accepted. Controversy still exists. I may have overstated the case. That said, I often come across quotes by skeptics that accept the findings but not the conclusions. Here is one example:
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As for the rest, I have ordered scans of the articles from the library.
(September 9, 2013 at 9:45 pm)bennyboy Wrote: Second, I'm not sure why you are calling probabilistic cause efficient cause.I'm trying to preserve the distinction between the modern use of the word 'cause' and the other 4 types of cause. At the same time, I am saying that probabilistic cause performs the same function as efficient cause as understood by the Scholastics.
(September 9, 2013 at 9:45 pm)bennyboy Wrote: Is it considered scientific fact? ...the pixelation of timespace ...I would say it is. The Plank-scales for time and space represent the smallest possible quantity of either one. Space and time at that scale cease to be dividable. That indivisablity gives the universe a maximum resolution so to speak.
(September 10, 2013 at 1:14 pm)MindForgedManacle Wrote: It should be noted that quantum mechanics is entirely deterministic.Before you can assert that something is deterministic you must have a philosophy of causation in place that supports it. Hence the OP. A purely mechanistic understanding of cause would support what you say about quantum mechanics, though not decisively. Yours would be one interpretation of quantum phenomena.