Wednesday, September 19, 2012

Endless search for causal relations

Humans are constantly on a search for causation. Every aspect of things we do, we search for relationships and try to infer what caused something. This search for causation isn’t bad, but it excludes the framework that  some incidents are a repercussion of a network or a web of effects. Take the internet as an example, the establishment of TCP/IP structure wasn’t the cause of the internet being built, but instead, the people which were lured into it is what caused its explosive expansion. Sometimes, the causes aren’t even present before the something happens, they just evolve and constantly change.

Sometimes it’s worth just experiencing something rather than looking for causation, and that’s something worth a thought.