Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site imsvax.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxl!houxm!houxz!vax135!cornell!uw-beaver!tektronix!hplabs!hao!seismo!rlgvax!cvl!elsie!imsvax!rcc From: rcc@imsvax.UUCP Newsgroups: net.philosophy Subject: Re: Now and Then Message-ID: <218@imsvax.UUCP> Date: Tue, 7-Aug-84 12:56:30 EDT Article-I.D.: imsvax.218 Posted: Tue Aug 7 12:56:30 1984 Date-Received: Sun, 12-Aug-84 00:39:20 EDT References: <3113@decwrl.UUCP> Organization: IMS Inc, Rockville MD Lines: 25 >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 :-) -- The preceding message was brought to you by -- Ray Chen UUCP: {umcp-cs!eneevax || seismo!rlgvax!elsie}!imsvax!rcc