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From: rcc@imsvax.UUCP
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Subject: Re: Now and Then
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Date: Tue, 7-Aug-84 12:56:30 EDT
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Posted: Tue Aug  7 12:56:30 1984
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>Yes, cause and effect do exist!

>The observation that certain things preceed others is easily proved.
>In the time/space continuum, there is a fundamental limit of propagation.
>This is the speed of light. All energy propagation is limited by this.
>The phenomenon of simultaneous events is only relevant when being analyzed
>in modular time samples.

Ahem.  Cause and effect may exist, and indeed, in order to function as
human beings, we seem to need to behave as if it exists, but I don't think
the principal of cause and effect can be *proved* to exist.  The association
of two events in time does not imply a connection between the two.

(For a more detailed argument, read Hume and Kant)

(Sorry for the nit-picking, but this is net.philosophy, after all :-)

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