The Myth of Causation
Ilexa Yardley 06 February 2010
As humans, we have a fascination with the idea of causation. That is, we like to believe there is a world, or a universe, or a circle (truth be told), where X is responsible for Y. X, if, or as, responsible for Y is a strictly linear idea (world, universe, circle, reality).
Because the line is always the diameter of a circle (cannot not be), there is no such thing as a strictly linear world (idea, universe, circle). Reality must be both. That is, to believe in something linear, that X causes Y, we are forced to believe in something circular, that is Y is causing X as X is causing Y. To untangle this properly, we need an observer.
That is, without an observer, separating X from Y is impossible. Unless we are able to separate X from Y, the linear idea (world, universe, reality) is impossible. So we have to examine the separation of X and Y more closely.
What is the idea of X and Y? The idea of X and Y is an observation that something that is joined in one way can be separated in another. Something must join X and Y in order for it to be separated. To do this, an observer observes a background. From this background, an observer separates X from Y.
More clearly, if we start with a background (a blank page), and we force onto it some kind of foreground (we put something on the page) we have just created an X and Y. By creating an X and Y we have separated them. So creation (our idea of creation) is a form of separation which is also an observation. (Unless we have an observer of some kind, there is no creation, and, therefore, no separation.)
But who or what is doing the creating (separating)? And-or who or what is the observer? What is the relationship between separation, joining, and causation, and, most important, observation?
If we separate man from his background, whether or not the background is real (physical) or ideal (non-physical), we have just created a circle. We did not create this circle. The circle created this circle. Only a circle can create a circle. This is the basis for causation . It is also the basis for, or, more accurately, a demonstration of, linearity and circularity and the relationship between them. Therefore, there is no such thing as causation, really.
Pi (circle in a continual relationship with the line) is the only observer. Pi, as the observer, is responsible for separation, and, thus, causation. Pi, as a circle, is entangled within any (every) observation.
Circle is the basis for linear observation and line is the basis for circular observation. This is the basis for, or the base relationship for, complementarity. The circle (and line) is amidst any separation and-or observation. The circle, and its mandatorily attached line, causes causation (and-or separation), and the opposite of causation (causation in both directions, choice, uncertainty, complementarity).
So, causation is an idealistic notion. Causation is an idea, a linear idea, that may be useful in some situations. It may be helpful to see X as the cause of Y, but, because they are in a mandatory circular relationship, it is also, always, a hindrance to see X as the cause of Y.
Therefore, the idea of a single big bang as a creative event is true and false at the same time (in the same moment, in the same place). For one big bang, we need multiple bangs (one cannot occur without multiple). One is not a strict cause for multiple, or, the number system is not strictly linear.
The idea of a single causative event, in any reality, is false, if it is true.
If something seems to cause something else the canny observer can always notice (quickly, or eventually) the something else has also caused the something. This means the idea of uncertainty, complementarity, and entanglement, is true (and also false). It also means the simple notion of causation (and, therefore hierarchy) is also true and false.
Linear thinking is helpful half the time (the number system works half the time). Circular thinking must enter the picture if the observer desires a one-hundred-percent causation (solution) for any observation (causation).
Thus, and therefore, pi is the causation factor (if we insist on causation). This is why, along with causation, we must create (invent, observe) uncertainty, surprise, chaos, randomness, gaming. Linear and circular are in a linear and circular relationship. Therefore, nothing is strictly linear, and nothing is strictly circular. Causation depends on a linear notion of time. Linear must also be circular. Time, then, is not strictly linear.
So, therefore, causation is, often, or, at least, we can be sure, half the time, a false idea.