Corpus evidence — top 10 passages

Most-relevant passages from the entire indexed corpus (67,286 paragraph chunks across YouTube transcripts, PubMed, arXiv, archive.org, Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy, OpenAlex, and more) ranked by semantic similarity (bge-small-en-v1.5).

1. 01 · _intake0.971

   > why is there no cause and effect this will be the most mindblowing thing I tell you to have a cause and effect in reality requires you have to use Newtonian physics meaning that time has

   _intake/claims-allbranch/curated-low/newton/003-why-is-there-no-cause-and-effect-this-will-be-the-most-mindb.md

2. 02 · yt0.798

   There's reasons why things exist, reasons why things happen. And this was elevated to a principle called the principle of sufficient reason. The principle of sufficient reason is literally the bumper sticker you see that says everything happens for a reason. Okay, there's a technical way of saying it that linenets uh the guy on the right said Spinosa is in the middle. All three of these philosophers promagated this principle and the way that Linus put it was the sake for which something happens is the final cause. Sorry, the principle sufficient reason is nothing is without a ground or reason …

   yt/rqezWO5Yba8-sean-carrol-the-big-picture-on-the-origins-of-life-meaning-a/transcript.txt

3. 03 · blog0.792

   To do so physicists have only needed to appeal to physical events. Not once have they had to appeal to sui generis mental events. Without doubt the causal account that physics provides of physical events contains gaps. But the crucial point is that is highly unlikely that physics will ever need to appeal to sui generis mental causes to fill these gaps—or so proponents of the no-gap argument claim. A similar no-gap argument can be presented at the level of neurophysiology. (See, for example, Melnyk 2003, p.187). We will look at challenges to Completeness in a moment, but note for now that the p…

   blog/plato-stanford-edu/mental-causation.md

4. 04 · blog0.791

   But once the state S on an initial value surface is fully specified in sufficient detail including the entire environment of E , this state will generally be so complex that it is highly likely that a state of exactly this kind will never again occur in the history of the universe. That is, true causal regularities of the form “whenever S is instantiated E will occur” will be instantiated at most once. What, then, is the cause of an event E ? It is not enough for defenders of causation simply to give up the principle “same cause, same effect”. The challenge, according to the dominant cause arg…

   blog/plato-stanford-edu/causation-in-physics.md

5. 05 · yt0.782

   For everything that happens, there is a cause or reason why. And again it's not crazy. In our everyday experience, that is kind of what we see. Things do not just happen. The book is not going to see just fly off into air. There seems to be reasons why things happen. If the book moves, it's because I moved it. And for Aristotle and for many other people, this metaphysical claim that things that happen do so because something causes them to happen, influenced their ideas about physics. So for Aristotle, if things are moving, it implies that something is moving them. There is a reason why things…

   yt/x26a-ztpQs8-the-big-picture-sean-carroll-talks-at-google/transcript.txt

6. 06 · yt0.782

   This is the real behavior of physical stuff in the universe. So Aristotle says, "I know what's going on. Motion is an unnatural state of being. There are natural ways for things in the universe to be places that things want to be in forms of motion that places and things want to have. And if you just let something go and don't disturb it, it will just sit there. It will not move. Motion requires an impetus, a mover. Something needs to be pushing it." This illustration stolen from the internet. The dog is not actually moving the car. You see the dog there, right? If you look very closely, there…

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7. 07 · blog0.781

   Given the pressures just noted in favor of the inclusive reading of the interaction principle, we shall assume that it applies to all mental events in what follows. The interaction claim itself should be understood in terms that bring out the all-important extensional understanding of causation for Davidson, as follows: events that have a mental description cause and are caused by events that have a physical description. This formulation brings out his view that events are causally related no matter how they are described, and also leaves open the possibility, which Davidson will subsequently …

   blog/plato-stanford-edu/anomalous-monism.md

8. 08 · yt0.781

   Some people talked about it. Bertrand Russell liked to emphasize it. 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. He couldn't stick to just the philosophy and science-- "only because it is erroneously supposed to do no harm." So this should be, I hope, in your minds, quite an extraordinary claim. The law of causality, that you have a cause for every effect, that t…

   yt/x26a-ztpQs8-the-big-picture-sean-carroll-talks-at-google/transcript.txt

9. 09 · blog0.780

   This challenge arises in light of Descartes’ saying: Now it is manifest by the natural light that there must be at least as much (reality) in the efficient and total cause as in the effect of that cause. For where, I ask, could the effect get its reality from, if not from the cause? And how could the cause give it to the effect unless it possessed it? It follows from this both that something cannot arise from nothing, and also that what is more perfect — that is, contains in itself more reality — cannot arise from what is less perfect. And this is transparently true not only in the case of eff…

   blog/plato-stanford-edu/descartes-theory-of-ideas.md

10. 10 · blog0.780

    Causes and effects can be accurately picked out using a variety of expressions, many of which are not explanatory. As we shall see, the distinction between causation and explanation is crucial to Anomalous Monism ( §§6.1–6.3 ; see also related discussion of the intensionality of deterministic relations in supplement B.3.1 ). Finally, to alleviate certain concerns about the adequacy of the form of physicalism he was endorsing, Davidson endorsed a dependency relation of supervenience of the mental on the physical, and claimed that it was consistent with Anomalous Monism (Davidson 1970, 214; 1993…

    blog/plato-stanford-edu/anomalous-monism.md