Iwannaplato wrote: ↑Sun May 21, 2023 8:41 am
popeye1945 wrote: ↑Sun May 21, 2023 7:02 am
Yes, but they are governed by the earth, moon and the cosmos, like I said your played like an instrument.
My breathing is not regulated by the cosmos, nor my desires, a baby does not look for faces because of the Moon. I also exert however tiny gravitational and EM forces. Why are you giving some matter agency and not all of it?
Life arose from the inanimate world and it is the inanimate world that is your life support. Your needs, desires, pains and pleasure are of the world as cause, and you react in quest of your needs of the world. I believe I have stated previously, that all beings is cause to all other beings. You are part of my outer world, and I react to you, as you react to me, so, being in and of itself, is the agency of cause to other beings.
Evolutionary adaptation links reactionary organisms to the slowly ever-changing world. It is the organisms reactionary nature that makes this process possible. The reaction of the organisms becomes to the world at large cause, in the way of contributing incrementally to the changing of ever-changing world. So, there is a reciprocal causation and reaction here, but to say that humanity in particular acts independently is just nonsense and gives an entirely delusional sense of what it is to be OF the world. [/quote]
I never said that humanity in particular acts independently. Is that why you keep responding the same way each time??? 2) And there you finally say it: reciprocal causation. Thank you. If anything is playing anything, then everything is playing everything. [/quote]
You've got it I think, but as part of the larger whole we are governed by the larger whole as reactionary creatures, which makes evolutionary adaptation possible. That being is cause to other beings I think we agree-- no? We are concerned here in how organisms function in the world, and that is as I say they react, for all motivated movement spells reaction, not action. There is no such thing as an unmotivated response/reaction. We as organisms are dependent upon our environment, the environment is not dependent upon us.
It can be confusing, but in essence, being is cause to other forms of being, and it would appear that the larger manifestations such as earth guide and support the living systems of the organism,
the organism by its being contributes to the changing larger system.[/quote]And again, thank you. I wasn't confused. [/quote]
Then why are we having this discussion?
I am saying that the world and cosmos govern the biology of the organism, as in a multitude of Carcadine rhythms ordered by the rotation of the earth, the movement of the sun, the moon and the influences of the cosmos in general. Our internal organs are internal. but are regulated by the music of the spheres/the cosmos, the earth and the cosmos are our life support systems. You are part of my physical world and thus I react to you, as you react to me, being in and of itself, is cause to other beings.
And here you seem to move back to your ruling metaphor, despite what you have said several times above.
I took pains in my responses to say I was not arguing for free will. I also mentioned that I was not taking the opposite position from your that all causation comes from us. Yet, somehow you still interpreted my position as opposite yours. I was disagreeing with what I thought was an unreal giving agency to the cosmos while treating the matter that we are as not having agency. The cosmos plays us. We don't play, though ironically we are the part of the cosmos that plays intruments thus providing the metaphor where we have less agency than the cosmos.
The point we have been trying to clarify is, how do organisms function in the world, are they independent active agencies or are they reactionary organisms?
We are not just reactive. The universe is not just reactive. There is a forward set of tendencies in all of it. AND it all reacts to other thing or portions of the universe. [/quote]
Well, you don't know that the universe is not just reactive for no one knows if it's a closed or open system. I really don't think we are miles apart on this, but my main point is the reactive nature of all organisms. If this were not so, evolutionary development/adaptation would not be possiable, the source of all diseases would not be of a reactionary nature, and if one ever wishes to understand the behavior of his fellows he would be lost if not asking to what is the chap reacting to.
I am going to lope away before I hear the same idea repeated yet again. For a brief period we seemed on the same page in part of your quoted post above. I don't want that spoiled. Running........
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Fair well!