To vetenskapsteori,
I’m glad that you took an interest in my thread and can gain value from my insights on these matters. It seems you have a genuine interest in Science and Philosophy. So allow me to respond to your latest message.
There are so many factors to consider about Causality today. There is a political interpretation and factor. There is also a philosophical one. I will introduce both of these, at least briefly. The political factor is common to slander, demean, diminish, and mock the idea of ‘Causality’ across humanity. It is not good or worse, “morally bad/evil” that people and humanity are “Causal Agents”. This is an attack against Agency. This is proved by “Social Justice Warriors”, BLM and Antifa (in the US), postmodern “liberals”, democrats, marxists, “leftists”, etc. The idea here is that humanity is about victimization and not Agency. It starts from the Negative, not the Positive. The political focus is about the deprivation of agency, and not the building of it. It is about Destruction (of Agency), and not Construction.
Does this make sense to you, or do you get my meaning – from a German perspective? (or which country you are from?)
The next aspect, which can be observed all over this forum immediately, is the philosophical “Free-Will” debate. Again, those that would slander Agency are the same who will slander Free-Will. This is the ‘Determinist’ philosophical argument and debate. I will link below a debate I had against the forum member Silhouette about Determinism. So while the political atmosphere slanders the idea of a collective social/cultural Agency (opposed to SJW Victimization), so too does the Determinist debate slander the ideal of individual human agency that humans are ‘Causal’ agents and can ‘determine’ their own destiny/fate.
In all of these manners, Cause is the primary and primal focal-point by which Agency is founded, along with Free-Will, and that any object, or subject, or organism, or person, could hypothesize the basis of “self-control”, or to even rationalize “self-consciousness”. Because if individuals are not responsible for their own Consciousness, then what is? I believe that these philosophical prepositions are the basis for the subsequent scientific insights and studies. After all, if Man cannot pinpoint or determine the causes within himself, then how can he then attribute Cause accurately or consistently outside of himself – to the causes of Natural Phenomena or Law??
Determinism Debate: ilovephilosophy.com/viewtop … 6&t=194003