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Causality (also referred to as 'causation', or 'cause and effect') is the agency or efficacy that connects one process (the cause) with another (the effect), where the first is understood to be partly responsible for the second. In general, a process has many causes, which are said to be causal factors for it, and all lie in its past. An effect can in turn be a cause of many other effects, which all lie in its future.
Causality is an abstraction that indicates how the world progresses, so basic a concept that it is more apt as an explanation of other concepts of progression than as something to be explained by others more basic. The concept is like those of agency and efficacy. For this reason, a leap of intuition may be needed to grasp it. Accordingly, causality is built into the conceptual structure of ordinary language.
In Aristotelian philosophy, the word 'cause' is also used to mean 'explanation' or 'answer to a why question', including Aristotle's material, formal, efficient, and final "causes"; then the "cause" is the explanans for the explanandum. In this case, failure to recognize that different kinds of "cause" are being considered can lead to futile debate. Of Aristotle's four explanatory modes, the one nearest to the concerns of the present article is the "efficient" one.
The Speed of Causality Tweet at us! @pbsspacetime Facebook: facebook.com/pbsspacetime Email us! pbsspacetime [at] gmail [dot] com Comment on Reddit: http://www.reddit.com/r/pbsspacetime The speed of light is often cited as the fastest anything can travel in our universe. While this might be true, the speed of light is the EFFECT and not the CAUSE of this phenomenon. So what's the cause? On this week's episode of Space Time, Matt helps explain what the speed of light REALLY is and why it’s the cosmic speed limit of our universe! "The Real Meaning of E=mc²": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xo232kyTsO0 "Are Space And Time An Illusion?": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YycAzdtUIko ------------------------------------------------- SOURCES: Einstein's derivation or the Lorentz transfo...
Improved audio. Resolution: optimized for 640 x 360 (16:9 SD) http://crackingthenutshell.com/what-is-time/ Welcome to Cracking the Nutshell! In this video, I discuss the nature of time. Summary: - Newtonian time (absolute time) - Relativistic Time (Einstein) / The observer - Time dilation (Special Relativity Theory) - Muons / cosmic rays (half-life) - Philosophical Theories of Time: A and B theories (John McTaggart) - Presentism / Block Time - "Now" moment and consciousness (awareness of change) - Determinism and classical physics - Free will an illusion? - Is time linear? - Time as perception of duration, change and ordering of events - Time an illusion of consciousness? - Time enabling 3D physical perception of space - Universe whith no change and no perception - Individual time, intr...
The internet game "Causality!" on Bored.com is a fun little game to play when bored.
Searle's talk at the Evolution and Function of Consciousness Summer School ("Turing Consciousness 2012") held at the University of Montreal as part of Alan Turing Year. All videos can be found here: http://users.ecs.soton.ac.uk/harnad/TuringEvolutionConsciousness.htm
Exploring the concepts of the past, the future, and causality in special relativity and how they are interpreted by different observers. Part of a series on special relativity. Let us know what you think of these videos by filling out our short survey at http://tinyurl.com/astronomy-pulsar. Thank you!
This video provides some criteria by which a causal theory might be judged This video was produced in January 2013 for my research methods seminar (SOC 334) at Queens College in the City University of New York. If you are enrolled in this class, you must also complete the assigned readings and exercises. Instructions will be posted on my web site and on Blackboard. This video is part of an experiment in teaching with technology. In the coming semester, I plan on releasing other videos and an overview of this experiment. If you are interested, please visit my web site (www.josephncohen.org) and share your questions, corrections, thoughts or criticisms. I appreciate any feedback or advice on the video's content (admittedly poor) production, or the format of moving my lectures to sets of sh...
Levitt and Dubner explain the difference between correlation and causality, and the tricky ways we have to devise to reveal a true causality.
Ionica Smeets (@ionicasmeets) is joining TEDxDelft Never Grow Up: A mathematician and science journalist with plenty of media experience. Using her vast knowledge and enthusiasm, she can explain everything about her favorite topics in science and statistics. She does it well on paper and face-to-face: She writes blogs, columns and books and is also asked to appear as a speaker, live, on television and on radio shows. Since 2006, Ionica has taken on the Internet with interesting and fun mathematics together with PhD Partner in Crime Jeanine Daems on the website wiskundemeisjes.nl. She and Jeanine now write a bi-weekly column in the Volkskrant about mathematics and the website also resulted in a book titled 'I Was Never Good At Math' (Ik was altijd heel slecht in wiskunde) in 2011. Ionica a...
Welcome to Causality. In this presentation I will cover cause and effect principles and touch on quantum mechanics. #Atheism
play a nice but scary causal game
It's a mistake to marvel at ourselves
To accept what we are as of now
I need to hold onto some sort of relevance, it's all I have left.
All at once I could view the entirety of space
A moment of isolation welcoming paralysis
Follow the cord which projects and makes the decisions for you
Adaptation brought introspection
All comfort has escaped me, remember to breathe in, breathe in again.