Re: Re: While computers are causal, life is not causal.

2012-09-03 Thread John Clark
On Mon, Sep 3, 2012 at 7:36 AM, Roger Clough  wrote

  > I would call that reacting.
>

Call it whatever you like, just don't call me late for dinner.

> But you're welcome to call it causal
>

I think I'll do just that, and thank you for giving me permission.

> I believe that you should know all of the factors involved before calling
> something causal.


I agree, but I don't need to know anything about a event to say that it's
causal or it's not causal, a fact that should be less controversial than
2+2=4.

  John K Clark

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Re: Re: While computers are causal, life is not causal.

2012-09-03 Thread Roger Clough
Hi John Clark 

I would call that reacting.
But you're welcome to call it causal.
I believe that you should know all of the factors involved
before calling something causal. 

Roger Clough, rclo...@verizon.net
9/3/2012 
Leibniz would say, "If there's no God, we'd have to invent him 
so that everything could function."
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Subject: Re: While computers are causal, life is not causal.


On Fri, Aug 31, 2012 at 8:29 AM, Roger Clough  wrote:


?> While?omputers are causal

Yes. 



> perception is not causal. Nothing that living things do is causal.

Nothing??? So when you're running and perceive a brick wall directly in front 
of you getting larger by the second that perception has nothing to do with you 
stopping just before you hit the wall. If "nothing" about living things is 
causal there would be no point in having sense organs, in fact there would be 
no point in having organs of any sort because they wouldn't operate.

? John K Clark? ? 

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