--- On Sun, 10/26/08, Mike Tintner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > So what's the connection according to you between > viruses and illness/disease, heating water and boiling, > force applied to object and acceleration of object?
Observing illness causes me to believe a virus might be present. Observing boiling water causes me to believe it was heated. f = ma says nothing about cause and effect. We say "X causes Y" if X and Y are correlated, and we can control X but not Y. This implies X precedes Y in time, because if Y happens first then controlling X would make them uncorrelated. If the mind is computable, then control is just a belief. Therefore, cause and effect would also be just a belief. Physics is computable and does not require cause and effect to model it. -- Matt Mahoney, [EMAIL PROTECTED] ------------------------------------------- agi Archives: https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/303/=now RSS Feed: https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/rss/303/ Modify Your Subscription: https://www.listbox.com/member/?member_id=8660244&id_secret=117534816-b15a34 Powered by Listbox: http://www.listbox.com
