{"id":169,"date":"2016-03-11T06:04:29","date_gmt":"2016-03-11T06:04:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/genecks\/?p=169"},"modified":"2016-03-11T06:04:30","modified_gmt":"2016-03-11T06:04:30","slug":"on-the-acausal-principle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/genecks\/2016\/03\/11\/on-the-acausal-principle\/","title":{"rendered":"On the acausal principle"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve been thinking about the acausal principle as of late, and I think it has merit. If we consider the acausal principle to be an absolute, then yes, there is something &#8220;holding together&#8221; the universe. It&#8217;s the connecting principle. It&#8217;s an absolute. The idea of cause-and-effect is an illusory one, as there are correlations. Cause-and-effect is an correlary argument from data, but it&#8217;s not necessary a true thing that occurs. I don&#8217;t believe it actually occurs, and I believe people argue &#8220;cause&#8221; and mean &#8220;high correlation.&#8221; Thus, the language issue becomes obvious.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve been thinking about the acausal principle as of late, and I think it has merit. If we consider the acausal principle to be an absolute, then yes, there is something &#8220;holding together&#8221; the universe. It&#8217;s the connecting principle. It&#8217;s &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/genecks\/2016\/03\/11\/on-the-acausal-principle\/\">Read more &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-169","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/genecks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/169","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/genecks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/genecks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/genecks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/genecks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=169"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/genecks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/169\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":170,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/genecks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/169\/revisions\/170"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/genecks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=169"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/genecks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=169"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/genecks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=169"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}