Great link. And an interesting choice of words: I wouldn't call it a dogma... it may be an illusion.
Of course, our brains being hardwired to understand causality in no way means causality actually exists in the material world. It only means we've had so far an evolutionary benefit from understanding the world that way. Depending on how you define causality, though, we're pretty damn sure it exists on the classical world (ie, excluding the quantum level).
Causality is a concept related to our experience as humans. We notice we can affect things around us. Our actions are causes in the sense that they make things happen. We attribute to all other things that happen other causes, so that we understand that changing such causes we can influence these things also. Our brains look for causes because they are useful to us. Nature does not give a damn to our brains or to our causes.
Great link. And an interesting choice of words: I wouldn't call it a dogma... it may be an illusion.
Of course, our brains being hardwired to understand causality in no way means causality actually exists in the material world. It only means we've had so far an evolutionary benefit from understanding the world that way. Depending on how you define causality, though, we're pretty damn sure it exists on the classical world (ie, excluding the quantum level).
Causality is a concept related to our experience as humans. We notice we can affect things around us. Our actions are causes in the sense that they make things happen. We attribute to all other things that happen other causes, so that we understand that changing such causes we can influence these things also. Our brains look for causes because they are useful to us. Nature does not give a damn to our brains or to our causes.