http://int.vzmla.org/realizing-the-phenomenon-realizing-the-mind/ Sat, 25 May 2013 14:36:21 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=4.1.40 http://int.vzmla.org/realizing-the-phenomenon-realizing-the-mind/#comment-24 Mon, 13 May 2013 01:02:45 +0000 http://www.vzmla.org/?p=591#comment-24 The concept of causality, determinism. All certainty in our relationships with the world rests on acknowledgement of causality. Causality is a genetic connection of phenomena through which one thing (the cause) under certain conditions gives rise to, causes something else (the effect). The essence of causality is the generation and determination of one phenomenon by another. In this respect causality differs from various other kinds of connection, for example, the simple temporal sequence of phenomena, of the regularities of accompanying processes. For example, a pinprick causes pain. Brain damage causes mental illness. Causality is an active relationship, a relationship which brings to life some thing new, which turns possibility into actuality. A cause is an active and primary thing in relation to the effect. But “after this” does not always mean “because of this”. It would be a parody of justice if we were to say that where there is punishment there must have been a crime.

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