When the mind is still and the mind is clear we can start to bring forth with choice, conscious creations. Causality , there's a couple of things, you can go also into Western alchemy which is working, in the Western alchemic traditionagain, is working at how to use the technology of a human being.
luckily because I had a very secure mentor it did work. But when I became a scientist, I discovered how hard it is to establish causality . And so when I went back to the therapy room, it's like, wait a second, I can't tell someone that because as a child this and this happened to you, that's why you're all this way now. Like like I can't
One of the places where we get messed up on this, and in the sciences, and also in philosophy, is to treat it all as causality . Interpretation is not causality . A stop sign doesn't cause you to stop unless you crash into it.
And the way to interpret this data is that people first adopt particular attentional states, We can't imply causality .
And the way to interpret this data is that people first adopt particular attentional states, It's causality . Because it's not the other way around.
You're seeking-- I hope you find it-- some good in my talk. We talk about final causality . Aristotle made that distinction, right?
Aristotle made that distinction, right? Between efficient causality , it's like a pushing cause. Think of all the physical sciences.
The modern sciences are based upon efficient causality , where did things come from, what brings them into being. But final causality , Aristotle thought was more important. That's the pulling cause, what attracts or lures things Now, that's a talk for another day.
That's the pulling cause, what attracts or lures things Now, that's a talk for another day. We could debate final causality in nature, but I think no one would disagree that final causality obtains, in our world, that we human beings are drawn by the good.
What's everybody drawn to? Talk about final causality , right? The minute the Ring gets near anybody.
Kant, at one point, had an image of space-time diagrams, which is really good in the 1770s. Hume's notions about causality and just looking at what you observe where than trying to understand what's going on inside. These are great powerful notions.
quite an extraordinary claim. The law of causality , that you have a cause for every effect, that the cause precedes the effect, that's not part of our understanding of the world anymore. What is going on?
So all they're saying is that if you attain, if you understand reality, what Buddha's discovery is, that when you fully understand reality, which again, is a revolutionary claim because you accept causality .
You'll find this through many of these traditions. There's causality , or effects have action. This could come across in karma in the Western Buddhism or the Golden Rule in Christianity.
course I took in more energy than I expended. I got fat. But why did I get fat? And then you just turn around and say, "Well, if you take in more energy than you expend," there's no arrow of causality . There's nothing meaningful here. This is a mistake that was made occasionally prior to the Second World War. It became ubiquitous after the Second World War. Whenever we tell someone, "You got fat 'cause you overate,"
And, of course, this is, of course, the time travellers from the future screwing things up. So we don't -- so we don't muck around too much with causality . And when I asked this of them, they just gave a thin smile. We don't know what dark matter and dark energy yet are. One of the nicest numbers in science is 10 to the power of 120, which is the observed and calculated discrepancy
What is your vision or how do you see this journey going forward? So things I'm excited about include causality as a field, which in part I think is exciting because it does explicitly involve so many modeling assumptions.
Think of all the physical sciences. The modern sciences are based upon efficient causality , where did things come from, what brings them into being. But final causality , Aristotle thought was more important.
You know, so it's actually a tremendous sense of discovery and exploration to experiment with how we pay attention so that we can actually open And I think that projection of causality is very interesting.
models in the 1800s sort of building up towards Einstein although that's probably the wrong way to put it that implies a causality that's almost certainly not there uh geometers like reman were finally kind of being able to explain things like why
1300s there's a sort of a shift in the search for some kind of explanation finally some kind of agency causality for why you have the phenomena that you have so I particularly love this map because this is one in which the understanding now were was that there
And the word "theories" gets a bum wrap with managers, because the word "theory" is associated with the word "theoretical," which connotes impractical. But a theory is a statement of causality . It's a statement of what causes what and why.
So all they're saying is that if you attain, if you understand reality, what Buddha's discovery is, that when you fully understand reality, which again, is a revolutionary claim So the point is if you accept causality , then even your identity is a construct.
I don't think there's a causality .
Then they get there and find out causality isn't worked the way they thought it did.
just touching upon on the causality that I find for this problem but in the book I lay out a lot
And now we kind of tackle all these different subjects-- causality , creativity, survival-- that a decision-maker may care about and where experience has lots of different ways
had been sold to the people as the causality of this event.
He was certain there was a mechanical or physical causality , that there was something about the technological world view or technology itself
of physics you see potentially the elimination of causality and
You can over-fit data and if you don't understand causality , you get into trouble.
And I was wondering if you know the direction of the causality there?
In fact, causality is still very useful to know.
And they gave up trying to figure out the causality and just went with the correlation.
Clay Shirky points out that we may even have the causality wrong.
Why why? You're asking a question about causality itself.
And as we know, it could be causality in either direction.
And the way to interpret this data is that people first adopt particular attentional states, Right? And I did not mean to imply causality here.
Now, it's very difficult to prove causality vs correlation.
He was primarily a philosopher, but a mathematical philosopher who knew a lot of physics. And he said, "The law of causality I believe, like much that passes muster among philosophers, is a relic of a bygone age, surviving, like the monarchy--" he just had to get that in there.
Now, will they understand the causality ?
in particular. That they may have the causality wrong.
run into is what we call the chicken and egg problem of causality you know what came first the chicken or the egg well
How do you deal with the United States lock on a few different corporations which are so successfully controlling access to data? How do you actually do the machine learning tasks in a way that meets challenges of population stratification and causality and everything else? And ultimately, how do you make people's lives better using health data?
In fact, I think there's more evidence for the diverse direction of causality .
He's a philosopher who believes that there's one level of being, no spiritual causality .
Number one, I think there's a bit of a backwards causality thing going on.
And what's interesting, and it doesn't prove causality necessarily, but we had the introduction of Vioxx right around that time that we started seeing that increase.
And the way to interpret this data is that people first adopt particular attentional states, Oh, fascinating. We actually can't design causality .
And the way to interpret this data is that people first adopt particular attentional states, But it's hard when you're just tracking people in these kinds of observational studies to try to infer causality .