Re: Announcement: The Temporal Neuron Revolution.... some thoughts

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From: Phil Roberts, Jr.
Date: Thu, 09 Oct 1997 00:00

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Louis Savain wrote:
> 
>
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>                Temporal relationship
>                is the only type of
>                relationship that can
>                exist between events.
>

Only if you insist that the physical is all there is to reality.  But then
that is metaphysics rather than science.  Hume was stuck in this same 
dilemma if you recall.  "Since there is no [physical] evidence of causation,
we therefore have no idea of what a cause is" (rough quote).  But we do.
We all no that the mere fact that day consistently antecedes night is
insufficient to qualify it as a causal relationship.  Why?

-- 

               Phil Roberts, Jr.

Why We Turned Out Like Captain Kirk Instead of Mr. Spock
	 http://www.bayside.net/users/philrob

Feelings of Worthlessness and So-Called Cognitive Science
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From: "Phil Roberts, Jr." <philrob@ix.netcom.com>
Subject: Re: Announcement: The Temporal Neuron Revolution.... some thoughts
Date: 1997/10/09
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