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Bob Sciamanda wrote:real".
My 2 cents:
1) Events happen mindlessly.
2) We model these phenomena by inventing ideas like causality,
so as to fit our observations into our mode of thinking, thus
"explaining" them. (We probably constructed the idea of causality
from our impression that we can cause events.)
3) It is a moot and fruitless question to ask whether "causality is
humanLike all of our physics, it is part of our modeling of reality into
representations.
4) To paraphrase Einstein, it is indeed a wondrous mystery that nature
is thus modelable to fit our need for "explanation".
I agree with "events happen mindlessly". And with "inventing the ideas
and terminology." My next two questions (assuming we agree on the
meaning of words) are:
a) Is nature governed by laws, (regardless of how much we are aware
of them)?
b) Are these laws causal?
If the answer to (b) is "yes" then "causality is real" ( see #3 above).with.
I do not ask if "causality is real", I take it for granted to begin
What is wrong with this?
. . . Ludwik Kowalski