That's still a chain even if it is a bunch of them happening at once which is what I meant. They however didn't mean it in the way you did. Even circumstances like weather or a pandemic are the result of events that build up to them.Belinda wrote: ↑Sun Nov 23, 2025 2:23 pmDarkness, 'linear' as used by Popeye refers to simple causal chains through time. Popeye's point with which I agree is that besides simple causal chains there are causal circumstances, such as weather or pandemic , which have a widespread effect.Darkneos wrote: ↑Sat Nov 22, 2025 8:32 pmNope, cause and effect is linear, just because there are multiples of it doesn't change that. Reality isn't always reciprocal and "care" when describing nature isn't a misnomer nor is cause and effect misleading. But this is a post by you so I'm expecting flawed reasoning.popeye1945 wrote: ↑Wed Oct 29, 2025 2:08 am
Care, in describing nature, is a misnomer; nature is unaware of the blight of its creatures. Basically, it is systems within systems, and all systems are relational processes. The term cause and effect is misleading, from which one might infer that cause and effect are linear; they are not. One cause can have many effects/reactions, and those reactions, in turn, become causes; reality is reciprocal causation. Through this reciprocal causation, we resonate with the whole; we belong. We are nodes in the sphere of our Earth, as it reciprocates as cause to us.
We don't resonate with the whole, we don't even know for sure there is a whole. Nor are we nodes in the sphere of our Earth. Far as anyone knows they are the sole cause of it all (problem of solipsism and all that). As usual another incorrect post by you.
There are also laws of science which are not simple causal chains or variations in weather or viral storms, but which cause effects always and unceasingly.
So ultimately it is just a simple chain, there's just lots of them.