Causality vs. Entailment

[Steve Johnson <***>]

When I read Rosen I always have the feeling that when
he uses the words entail/entailment he does not quite
mean cause/causality in the normal sense of the word.
For example, I feel that  in Judith's quote below it
would not make sense to say that "each gender causes
the other" but it does make sense to say that "each
gender entails the other". 

Am I correct that there is a distinction between
entailment and causality/causes in the way Rosen uses
these terms? If so, can someone share their
understanding of the difference?



Judith:

On the one hand, I think that-- in the same way that
the chicken and the egg entail each other-- any
species which has two genders, it can be said that 
each gender entails the other.

SJ:

Judith





--- Judith Rosen <***> wrote:

> Hi Everyone,
> 
> I'm down in Virginia on a business trip right now
> but finally able to retrieve my email.
> 
> Ayten's comments and questions on comparisons
> between male and female brains 
> (or  between male and female "anything") are of
> interest in several ways with 
> regards to issues Rosennean Complexity addresses.
> 
> On the one hand, I think that-- in the same way that
> the chicken and the egg entail 
> each other-- any species which has two genders, it
> can be said that each gender 
> entails the other. I think each also has the other
> encoded within it, just as the female 
> body has, say, the nutritional needs of an infant
> encoded; these are all aspects of the 
> "internal predictive models" that are discussed in
> Anticipatory Systems. It's a little 
> tricky to discuss some of these aspects on a public
> forum because it could easily 
> degenerate  into either camp or overtly sexual terms
> that some are bound to find 
> offensive. However, I think it's important to point
> out that the term "anatomically 
> correct for each other" infers a great deal of
> information that must be encoded about 
> anatomy which the OTHER gender possesses. I've heard
> the male body described, by 
> a famous male author whose name escapes me at the
> moment... as "a delivery 
> system" which externalizes everything. I asked my
> father, who was alive at the time 
> that article came out, whether he would agree with
> it, and he said basically he did. 
> What it means, I think, is that the male body has
> the information encoded within it 
> that the female body internalizes.
> 
> So, while I think it's generally true that most
> female human brains can multi-task 
> much more easily than most human males, for example,
> and males can rotate 
> images three-dimensionally in their minds with much
> greater ease... I think that such 
> differences are not "accidental". I think that the
> genders have certain aspects about 
> each other encoded and I also think that they (the
> genders) differ for a reason. 
> I suspect the reason has something to do with
> "complementarity".
> 
> Web address: www.rosen-enterprises.com
> 



                
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