Friday, October 10, 2008
cause and effect circulation
I'm writing today a little bit about my view on Humes skeptical views about cause and effect. He talks about how we learn things by experiencing and then remembering and using them to change the future (by learning from our mistakes). Like when a person burns their hand on a stove and knows from then on out that the stove will burn their hand if they put it on it. I found it interesting when he talked about how contradicting that is because we use our memories from the past and the past futures to learn about our decisions and their effects, but what makes us so sure that the new future will hold the same results. Just because in the past there has been causes and effects that we feel like we learn from, that doesn't mean our causes in the future will produce the same results. It's kind of like circular reasoning he says. I agree with him on that, but at the same time like our professor told us, we wouldn't get hit by a car when we walk into the street, and then not remember that and just do it again like it won't happen. Just some interesting points I got from our recent readings on reality.
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