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The idea that causality is impossible to observe goes back to Hume. Hume thought that people notice two events happening one after the other and infer causation
by slibhb 3y ago
The idea that causality is impossible to observe goes back to Hume. Hume thought that people notice two events happening one after the other and infer causation. But, according to Hume, there is no way to prove casuation and our doing so is just a habit of the mind.
- marcosdumay 3y agoThat blank dismissal of everything just because we can't have any kind of conclusive proof is useless. It may have been important at the time where people were trying to prove God exist and etc, but it's not something you want to hold nowadays. The fact is that all of the settled science is composed of causal models (non-causal models aren't useful), and we have some damn good confidence on some of those. Proof is not necessary. Oh, and those causal models are usually ab-initio, so for whatever chaotic system appear out of them, they are the cause, not consequence. Again, a few aren't, and the article is clearly about some set of those few. But you can't just blanket throw away all causality.