Illusions of causality: How they bias our everyday thinking and how they could be reduced Frontiers in Psychology, 6 (2015) Google Scholar McKay and Dennett, 2009 R.T. McKay, D.C. Dennett The evolution of misbelief Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 32 (6) (2009), pp. 493-510 View in Sc...
Silas and Bert, I’ll have to think more about your comments, but I’m not sure these abstract logical models can address the social aspect of assigning causality. Society tends to assign causality to the Fed when they think the Fed should have prevented something, not when they think it ...
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The challenge is the next generation, he says. "You have to make sure the next generation doesn't get too comfortable. Don't over-educate them. Push them harder. Don't be too nice to the next generation. Progress comes before education. The causality is inverse. If you increase education...
How does relativity of simultaneity not violate the principle of causality? What is the simultaneity problem? What is special about special relativity? Who invented relativity of simultaneity? What is the importance of the special theory of relativity?
Determinism is more than belief in causality. The defining feature of determinism is a belief in the inevitability of causality. The essence of determinism is that everything that happens is the only thing that could possibly happen (given the past) under those circumstances. The category of the...
I mean, honestly, a scientist would accept the "mosquito on the window-sil" observation as an example of Causality. They only use math later, when attempting to describe how it happened. You're denying the basic mathematical logic that leads to that assumption in the first place. Like I...
Applied to the question of time, my metaphor would hint at time only making sense within material aspect of reality, whereas in quantum field it doesn't, simply because there is no causality present there. For an illustration, our organs communicate via nervous system, but also through the sy...
Furthermore, the cross-sectional design does not allow for the determination of causality between functionality appreciation and psychotic symptoms. Although superior to the minimum sample size calculated, the sample size is rather small. Despite the fact that all persons responsible for the data ...
All our cherished intuitions about reality are under attack: determinism, causality, and an objective and mind-independent world. Indeed, at the core of reality, a bizarre, holistic structural connectivity appears to emerge. To tackle these enigmas, physicists have conjured up fantastic ontologies: ...