Causality can certainly be defined. A cause is something that is necessary for something else to exist.analog57 wrote:That means even one causal event cannot be precisely defined. Therefore causality itself cannot be defined?
The weather can't be fully explained in detail, but that doesn't mean there is no weather.How can a thing be caused, if the process of causality itself cannot be explained?
Yes.When causality cannot be precisely defined, for example, a person throws a rock and a window breaks:
According to your definition of causality, the reason the window was broken, is due to a multitude of many ultimately unspecifiable, yet completely deterministic factors resulting in a person tossing a stone
When the weather is changeable, we sometimes say "The weather hasn't decided what it wants to do." It's just a figure of speech, to indicate that we don't yet know what pattern the weather will settle in. It's the same with our "free will". We have "free will" until such time as Nature has decided what we are to do....AND the person is NOT ultimately responsible for their actions in a philosophical sense, because free will does NOT exist.
We say that people are "responsible" for their actions because we are trying to modify their behaviour, causally. That is, we are trying to cause their behaviour to be something that better suits us.
Yes, a person makes a choice, but whichever choice they make is completely determined by predetermining causes. For example, some people have more choices than others, and some people are more intelligent, more confident, more knowlegeable, etc. All these things determine what choice a person will make.According to my "free will" hypothesis, the person reached a crucial point, where a choice needed to be made:
yes or no.