ON INFLUENCING OTHERS.
"If we really believed that other people's actions did not have causes, we would never try to influence other people's actions: for such influence can only result if we know, more or less, what causes will produce the actions we desire. If we could never try to influence other people's actions ... argument, exhortation, and command would become mere idle breath. Thus almost all the actions with which morality is concerned would become irrational ... and right and wrong would be interfered with in a way in which determinism certainly does not interfere with them. Most morality absolutely depends upon the assumption that volitions have causes, and nothing in morals is destroyed by this assumption (ie. that motives are causes)." -- Bertrand Russell
THE
NATURAL ORDER OF THINGS
.
Causality
takes a beating when minds and singularities interact.
But Big Mind
doesn't need causality anyway ... every
instant of
every universe springs into existence together,
and synchronicity
is the natural order of things.
-- from 'The
57th Franz Kafka'
Knowledge is Power
"The
end of knowledge is power; and ... the
scope
of all speculation is the performance of
some
action, or thing to be done." -- Thomas Hobbes