What do you mean here? Can you please expand on that?PorcelainLark wrote: Tue Aug 26, 2025 6:34 am I don't know what it actually means for something to cause another thing, so I reject determinism.
The Mind-Body Problem
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FairBlueLove
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Re: The Mind-Body Problem
When society judges without understanding, it silences hearts that yearn for connection.
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PorcelainLark
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Re: The Mind-Body Problem
Something happens after something else; some of these correlations are tighter than others, but on what basis can you make a categorical judgement that the correlation is really "causal"? Causality is speculative, all we know is that things are happening sequentially, not that they are happening out of some necessity. That doesn't mean humans are necessarily "freer" than anything else, or that laws of physics are mutable; just that we don't know correlations are necessary.
If you're interested in the topic, I recommend looking into David Hume and the problem of induction, and Ernst Mach's empirio-criticism.