Dominate modern certainty rests on the acknowledgement of
causality. Causality is the connection of phenomena through which one thing under
certain conditions causes an effect. The connection between cause and effect is
dependent on the logic of linear time (see week 1 reflection). Perhaps on occasion we have the capacity to clearly
perceive the phenomenon that produce a given effect, but more often than not an infinite number of causes produce the effects that we are attempting
to understand.
The universality of
causality is often denied based upon the limited nature of human experience,
which prevents us from judging the numerous and interlocking connections beyond
what can be understood through the logic of science or experiance.
This deterministic approach seeks to explain a
process as being determined by certain causes and therefore predictable.
However, in quantum physics and in living nature it is impossible to isolate
causes and effects. Probability and statistical laws, can be used to make
approximations regarding the future, however with the myriad of variables
cannot predict and demonstrate that the universe is not deterministic.
The universe is weird, very very weird…
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