“Was not their mistake once more bred of the life of slavery that they had been living?—a life which was always looking upon everything, except mankind, animate and inanimate—‘nature,’ as people used to call it—as one thing, and mankind as another, it was natural to people thinking in this way, that they should try to make ‘nature’ their slave, since they thought ‘nature’ was something outside them” — William Morris


Monday, April 25, 2011

Realist Magic




...summing up the last two posts, this means that causality is a MAGICAL DISPLAY. Any theory of causation that eliminates the illusion-like aspect will fail at some point.

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