shminux comments on Examples of mysteries explained *away* - Less Wrong

7 Post author: RolfAndreassen 30 September 2011 06:47PM

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Comment author: Jack 30 September 2011 09:18:28PM *  0 points [-]

You think causality is just a feel-good exercise and has little to do with science?

Comment author: shminux 30 September 2011 09:26:25PM 0 points [-]

Please feel free to be more specific. Causality as a consequence of Newtonian mechanics or Special or General Relativity is not an explanation in itself, but just that a consequence. It is also a (mostly valid) observation.

On the second thought, this is turning to be a dialog, which is more appropriate for a chat room, than for a public forum, so I will stop here.

Comment author: lessdazed 30 September 2011 09:33:05PM 4 points [-]

On the second thought, this is turning to be a dialog, which is more appropriate for a chat room, than for a public forum, so I will stop here.

If this string of comments is much upvoted, then it would certainly be appropriate for here, despite there being only two people in the discussion.

Comment author: rysade 01 October 2011 07:29:58AM *  1 point [-]

I have to say this discussion has me intrigued. Feel free to post the results of the discussion here. I am interested in hearing how it all turns out.

Comment author: Jack 01 October 2011 11:08:01AM 1 point [-]

We seem to have fans so I'll trying to go into it later today. But you and anyone else interested in scientific explanation should start by reading or at least browsing the SEP article.