Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site spar.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!ucbvax!decvax!decwrl!spar!baba From: baba@spar.UUCP (Not Michael Ellis) Newsgroups: net.philosophy Subject: What's this causality stuff anyway? Message-ID: <471@spar.UUCP> Date: Sun, 18-Aug-85 04:55:24 EDT Article-I.D.: spar.471 Posted: Sun Aug 18 04:55:24 1985 Date-Received: Tue, 20-Aug-85 22:37:51 EDT Distribution: net Organization: Schlumberger Palo Alto Research, CA Lines: 6 I don't understand all this talk about determinism and acausality. I mean, what distinguishes a "causal" and an "acausal" event? Is there a "causiton" that mediates the force of causality? Or is it all just a silly trick of our particular brains, like, well, "free" will? Baba