“Most people, if you describe a train of events to them, will tell you what the result would be. They can put those events together in their minds, and argue from them that something will come to pass. There are few people, however, who, if you told them a result, would be able to evolve from their own inner consciousness what the steps were which led up to that result. This power is what I mean when I talk of reasoning backward, or analytically.” – Sherlock Holmes
The result does not simultaneously determine the cause—mutual determination is closely tied to a deterministic worldview. Put differently, humans create their own causality. Deterministic worldview cannot explain human actions because humans create knowledge.Ayachedevelop
Related:
- 1-2g3.1 It’s explanations all the way down
- 13-6e Praxeology is concerned with the fact that humans solve problems—regardless of how
- Humans create their own cause
- 1-1a5b4.4 Real-time calibration (i.e., recalibration) lets you adapt to the changing landscape
- 3-1c2e0 There is no minimum idea
- 5-1b1a2c0.1 Perfect replication is impossible
- 5-1b1a3 We are more than technology, because we create knowledge-technology. We are more than functions. Don’t be a function.
- 9-4b1a Abductions are historic events. Real writing is history being written.
- 9-4b2a1c The moment you write about any societal problem in depth you’ll find yourself writing a history of that problem
- 9-4b2e A mind can create ideas which have never existed before
- 10-1a1 歴史 = 編集 = 関係の発見
- 10-1a2 History rewrites (edits) itself
- 13-1b The mind, with its intention, can shape the multiverse
- And that cause cannot be predicted because knowledge is by definition unpredictable
- A deterministic worldview
- On inversion
- This is another sense in which why causation doesn’t exhaust explanation