Boing Boing: A Directory of Wonderful Things

I happen to like Boing Boing, and this give me a chance to try out the
Blog This! feature. Expect more spontaneous linkage in the future.   ¶ #

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  Many blogs feature interesting dreams that their writers have had. The following is my attempt to disentangle a dream I had just before waking this morning. Note the abscence of characters or sensory details. These are the best sorts of dreams.

"Causality, cause" an event or condition responsible for a result. (corruption of American Heritage)

According to Hume, we can only perceive succession, not the sort of responsibility tha connects different events or conditions.

"Succession in time" is a vacuous notion of causality. Consider all of the pairs of events which have succession in time that aren't causally connected. At least I don't think most of them are connected, but it does seem like a common human failing to attribute a causal interpretation to any interesting succession.

Well, I had this dream at the beginning of September and the rest seems to be gone now. There was more.  ¶ #

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