#causation

The Thirteenth - correlation without any real causation.  https://writingtheday.wordpress.com/2014/06/13/the-thirteenth/

A thirteenth day that is a Friday. A Full Moon to complete a triad of strange correlation without any real causation. We look carefully for signs and connections – find clockwork regularity; serendipity in the moments.

Douglas Kutach’ın bu kitabı, felsefenin en temel ve en tartışmalı meselelerinden biri olan nedensellik kavramını çağdaş tartışmalar ışığında ele alıyor. Kutach, insanların dünyayı anlamlandırırken sürekli başvurduğu “neden-sonuç” ilişkilerinin aslında sanıldığından çok daha karmaşık olduğunu gösteriyor. ‘Nedensellik’ (‘Causation’), yalnızca “Bir olay başka bir olaya nasıl neden olur?” sorusunu…

What Are We Conscious Of?

Start from what consciousness actually has access to. It does not see neural processes, hormonal regulation, or the distributed interactions that produce behavior. It does not see causes unfolding. What it “receives” are already-formed results, for example thought appears, a feeling appears, an intention appears, an action is about to happen. These are effects, outcomes of processes that have already taken place.

Consciousness then does something structurally misleading, it organizes these effects into a story of causation. For example, an urge appears, followed by an action. Consciousness links them and says: “I wanted this, therefore I did it.” But the wanting itself is already an effect of prior processes, and the action is the continuation of those processes. The conscious story inserts a simple cause (“I decided”) where in fact there is a complex chain it cannot access.

This is what Deleuze means by calling consciousness a “locus of illusion.” The illusion is not that experience is fake. The illusion is that consciousness presents itself as the source and knower of causes, when in reality it only has access to results and reconstructs causes afterward. A useful parallel is Baruch Spinoza, who argued that humans believe themselves free because they are aware of their actions but ignorant of the causes that determine them. Deleuze is extending that line, consciousness is structurally positioned at the end of processes, not at their origin.

You can relate this idea to Thomas Metzinger's work. He suggests that the self is like a model created by our brain. This model gives us a feeling of control and ownership over our actions. However, it doesn't show us how this model is made. So, while we might think, "I am doing this," the real processes that lead to our actions remain hidden from us.

So the claim is not mystical. It is architectural. Processes happen and outcomes appear in consciousness. Consciousness constructs a causal narrative that is mistaken for the real cause. This is why introspection feels convincing but is often unreliable as an explanation. You can report what you experience, but not the mechanisms that produced it.

The deeper consequence is uncomfortable. If consciousness only registers effects, then the sense of being the origin of thought and action is itself one more effect among others. The “I” that claims authorship is part of the output, not the source. This does not mean nothing happens or that behavior is random. It means that causation is real, but it is not accessible at the level where consciousness operates.

Bringing a professional negligence claim in England and Wales requires careful compliance with procedural rules and strict evidential standards. Claimants must establish duty of care, breach, causation and measurable loss while adhering to the Pre-Action Protocol for Professional Negligence and the Civil Procedure Rules. Many otherwise valid claims falter because they are issued too late,…

No need to name names, point fingers or establish a list of do’s & don’ts as we all know what we are doing & not doing & pretending that you don’t, won’t work either. We forget, dismiss or deny, or choose & accept (poorly), then, close one eye, & begin to enlarge & grow, our imperfect comfort zones & ways. Our hypnotic state drives us & we go along in a surrender mode. We have outsourced our life…

What you are seeing here is "causation", an event that could not have happened if another event did not proceed it. Before I explain this point of causation, I will say it is not what many of the bleeding hearts will say it is. It is not ICE agents in Minneapolis. It's not Mr. Trump's hard line stance on illegal immigration. That is the low hanging, left leaning fruit of choice. The left and their blue/green haired libertarian friends will say, "Had ICE not been there, Renee Nicole Good would still be alive today." This of course, is explicitly wrong. We'll loop back around to that. The actual point of causation started at the point of allowing mass illegal immigration into the United States. Had the United States government done it's job over say, the last 40 years, to protect the Citizens of the United States from "all enemy's foreign and domestic", Mrs. Good would still be alive today. This is a hard fact for the left to swallow. The hard fact is they are the reason she is dead today. Oh sure the left will blame the ICE agents and Mr. Trump for sending ICE there but the reality of it is; The Left has had decades long policies in place to encourage illegal immigration. Entire democrat presidencies have looked the other way while MILLION of people have poured over our boarders, or overstayed visas and they were allowed to just stay. If the United States did not have an overwhelming illegal immigration problem, fed by liberal policies. If Congress and the courts used and followed the LAWS on the books that make all of the illegal immigration, well, illegal. If law enforcement was allowed to enforce the laws unobstructed but activist states and courts, we would not be in this boat and Mrs. Good would be alive today. Had Mrs. Good, not interjected herself into a situation that did not involve her, had she complied, had she not attempted to hit a law enforcement agent, Mrs. Good, would be alive right now. She did this to herself, her actions and disregard for law and order killed her. She is to blame for her death, by extension blame can be laid on the left, illegal immigration and everyone standing around watching illegal aliens strangle our cities and killing our Citizens and doing nothing about it. Here is a short list of other random people who would still be alive today had one or more illegal aliens not killed them: Katie Abraham (20) - 2025

Marco Antonio Baez Del Angel - 2025 (seriously injured, wife killed)

Robert Boles (70) - 2025

Megan Bos (37) - 2025

Scott Coxell (39) - 2011

Taliyah Crochet (18) - 2024

Grayson Davis (29) - 2024

Matthew Denice (23) - 2011

Dominic Durden - 2012

Sara Escudero (64) - 2013

Joshua Fromer (19) - 2005

Nicacio Hernandez Gonzalez - 2025

Richard Grossi (55) - 2009

Tiger Gutierrez (22) - 2025

Kayla Hamilton - 2025

Lennox Lake (6) - 2016 (seriously injured)

Police Officer David Lee (44) - 2024

Santiago Lopez Morales (48) - 2025

Maria Pleitez (42) - 2025

Dayanara Pleitez (11) - 2025

Maverick Martzen (8) - 2019

Melissa Powell (47) - 2024

Riordan Powell (16) - 2024

Rachel Morin - 2025

Mustaffa Muhammad - 2025

Jocelyn Nungaray (12) - 2024

Rylan Oncale (18) - 2024

Nicholay Osokin (19) - 2021

Sarah Root (21) - 2016

Raquel Lorena Sarabia Barajas - 2025

Jamiel "Jazz" Shaw (teenager) - 2008

Ivory Smith (7) - 2024

Ronald da Silva - 2002

Tessa Tranchant (16) - 2007

Anya Varfolomeev (19) - 2021

Alex "AJ" Wise Jr. (10) - 2024