> an understanding of causality is a defining trait of higher levels of intelligence (at least forms of intelligence that we are so far familiar with), but it itself only emerges from systems that already exhibit behavior that resembles some form of intelligence. but what about understandings of time that indicate retrocausality (eg dean radin's research, and some theoretical physics papers showing multiple time streams) or mystical texts that demonstrate alternate conceptions of causality? imo a strict focus on causality is r*ddit dawkins bill nye i fucking love science midwit-tier, reality is much more complex (and interesting). jung's synchronicity paper (endorsed by nobel prizewinner pauli) blows a simple materialist causality-based understanding of "reality" straight out of the water
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