RE: Aquinas's Fifth Way
November 28, 2014 at 3:04 pm
(This post was last modified: November 28, 2014 at 3:10 pm by The Grand Nudger.)
-Our- universe, you live here too.....at least some of the time. 
(the mechanism by which most of the causes we're familiar with produce most of the effects we're familiar with is interaction btw - as in our example of light and photophobic or photoreactive substances and structures. Put them in a black box, prevent interaction, you prevent the effect by severing it from the cause. You can do this another level into the explanation, of course, inhibit the production of auxin and even if the cause is present, there is less interaction - relative to our baseline- and so we see less of the effect. You can manipulate it as well, shine a light - watch the plant grow and track..hence we know it's light, and not the sun, particularly. All to do with interaction at every level - in the case of plants).
(the mechanism by which most of the causes we're familiar with produce most of the effects we're familiar with is interaction btw - as in our example of light and photophobic or photoreactive substances and structures. Put them in a black box, prevent interaction, you prevent the effect by severing it from the cause. You can do this another level into the explanation, of course, inhibit the production of auxin and even if the cause is present, there is less interaction - relative to our baseline- and so we see less of the effect. You can manipulate it as well, shine a light - watch the plant grow and track..hence we know it's light, and not the sun, particularly. All to do with interaction at every level - in the case of plants).
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