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Causation, Mind, and Psionics
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RE: Causation, Mind, and Psionics
(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 accepted
Not 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.
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Causation, Mind, and Psionics - by Neo-Scholastic - September 9, 2013 at 8:55 pm
RE: Causation, Mind, and Psionics - by bennyboy - September 9, 2013 at 9:45 pm
RE: Causation, Mind, and Psionics - by Neo-Scholastic - September 10, 2013 at 7:59 pm
RE: Causation, Mind, and Psionics - by bennyboy - September 10, 2013 at 8:37 pm
RE: Causation, Mind, and Psionics - by MindForgedManacle - September 10, 2013 at 1:14 pm
RE: Causation, Mind, and Psionics - by Cato - September 10, 2013 at 11:47 pm
RE: Causation, Mind, and Psionics - by MindForgedManacle - September 11, 2013 at 12:40 pm
RE: Causation, Mind, and Psionics - by Anomalocaris - September 11, 2013 at 12:50 pm
RE: Causation, Mind, and Psionics - by MindForgedManacle - September 11, 2013 at 12:53 pm
RE: Causation, Mind, and Psionics - by Anomalocaris - September 11, 2013 at 12:59 pm
RE: Causation, Mind, and Psionics - by MindForgedManacle - September 11, 2013 at 3:20 pm
RE: Causation, Mind, and Psionics - by Chas - September 10, 2013 at 9:11 pm
RE: Causation, Mind, and Psionics - by Anomalocaris - September 10, 2013 at 9:46 pm
RE: Causation, Mind, and Psionics - by Neo-Scholastic - September 10, 2013 at 11:29 pm
RE: Causation, Mind, and Psionics - by Anomalocaris - September 11, 2013 at 1:34 am
RE: Causation, Mind, and Psionics - by bennyboy - September 11, 2013 at 12:06 am
RE: Causation, Mind, and Psionics - by genkaus - September 11, 2013 at 3:17 pm
RE: Causation, Mind, and Psionics - by Neo-Scholastic - September 11, 2013 at 11:24 pm
RE: Causation, Mind, and Psionics - by Angrboda - September 11, 2013 at 11:58 pm
RE: Causation, Mind, and Psionics - by genkaus - September 12, 2013 at 8:35 am
RE: Causation, Mind, and Psionics - by bennyboy - September 12, 2013 at 5:59 am
RE: Causation, Mind, and Psionics - by BrianSoddingBoru4 - October 6, 2013 at 7:38 pm
RE: Causation, Mind, and Psionics - by Captain Colostomy - October 6, 2013 at 7:47 pm
RE: Causation, Mind, and Psionics - by Chas - October 6, 2013 at 7:56 pm
RE: Causation, Mind, and Psionics - by Jackalope - October 6, 2013 at 8:43 pm
RE: Causation, Mind, and Psionics - by Jackalope - October 6, 2013 at 8:44 pm
RE: Causation, Mind, and Psionics - by Captain Colostomy - October 7, 2013 at 1:30 am
RE: Causation, Mind, and Psionics - by Angrboda - October 7, 2013 at 1:10 am

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