Re: Modeling relations and semantics: "Blame" and causality

[James N Rose <***>]

Judith,

I'm gratified you concur with the things I write about.

RR may have been an adamant Causalist but he gave the
world a causal-concept extraordinarily difficult to
deal with or even get their minds's around .. entailment.

The basic notion is relatively easy, but it's grand scope
and inclusiveness, anything but.  More than the last of my
pghs you cited, my two that immediate followed it were the 
denoument point of the three.

  "In other animals the perceive-evaluate-react net of 
   awareness/behaving, is a crucial causal-analysis 
   chaining as well.

   How challenging then is it to break from "tangible"
   specifiable-causality concept processing, and accept
   indefinite but as or more important, indefinite
   nebulous relations as the more important ones."

RR effectively and explicitely made the point that the
nature of open existence includes causal links that are
potentially neither recognized nor included in extant
models and noted information.  Causality in known and
recognized phenomena is one thing, but watch out,
don't be arrogantly prideful that what you see is all 
there is to see .. other causal influences abound and
effect significant entailings that (re)direct system
operations, actions, performances, values, and being.


It might be a bold point, but as much as causalities
of the 4 aristotelian kinds are definitive, RR cubby
holes them as a -sub-grouping of a larger causal world,
where reality is expanded group:

          identified/known     unknown/potential 

    A1           x                    x 

    A2           x                    x

    A3           x                    x

    A4           x                    x


         |classical Causes|

         |        Rosen entailed Causes         |  



Currently, statistical analysis and quantum mechanical
concepts reign in the area of projected-supposition,
which involves accounting for observed phenomena
in a quasi-causal linkage .. likelihoods following
patterns, from random events potential.  Where no 
event - and therefore no formal causalchain - can be 
absolutely predicted and specified.

RR might have eventually written that -underscoring-
even indefinite phenomena, causality is a preordinate
primogenitor state or qualia of existence; but the
openness of being, being itself a companion a priori,
makes causality appear a-causal before it can present 
its own true nature and instantiate the vast involvements
of being.

Nothing is unrelated to anything else, and surety/unsurety
co-integrates to produce the effective world we are part of.

Re-instilling such notion of being into the fixed machination
system that Science is at the moment .. its like expecting 
that butterfly which chaos theory says has the potential
to eventually 'cause' a hurricane, to fly intothe middle 
of that storm, and affect its current behavior.

Someway, somehow, the butterfly will  - but not by direct encounter.

:-)


Jamie