Science has done a wonderful job with local causation as its guide but the best I can gather is that we lack a mechanism for non-local causation. I have been playing around with a causal mechanism for nonlocal causation--i.e.: a physical mechanism that produces an effect on an entity's behaviour without acting on it with some type of force. In essence it works by the subtraction of force that is otherwise constant, or it can be stated positively as the change in the degrees of freedom available to an entities action potential.
Would dissipation of heat, by a heat-sink, be an example of "an effect on an entity's behavior without acting on it with some type of force?"
Life, Awareness and Causality
in 1 - Metaphysics
Posted · Edited by Mindy
Quote of Paul Mawdsley:
Science has done a wonderful job with local causation as its guide but the best I can gather is that we lack a mechanism for non-local causation. I have been playing around with a causal mechanism for nonlocal causation--i.e.: a physical mechanism that produces an effect on an entity's behaviour without acting on it with some type of force. In essence it works by the subtraction of force that is otherwise constant, or it can be stated positively as the change in the degrees of freedom available to an entities action potential.
Would dissipation of heat, by a heat-sink, be an example of "an effect on an entity's behavior without acting on it with some type of force?"
--Mindy