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Background Review: Quest for Definable Causality

Background Review: Quest for Definable Causality

Copyright: © 2011 |Pages: 30
ISBN13: 9781609605254|ISBN10: 160960525X|EISBN13: 9781609605261
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-60960-525-4.ch002
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Wen-Ran Zhang. "Background Review: Quest for Definable Causality." YinYang Bipolar Relativity: A Unifying Theory of Nature, Agents and Causality with Applications in Quantum Computing, Cognitive Informatics and Life Sciences, IGI Global, 2011, pp.34-63. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-60960-525-4.ch002

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W. Zhang (2011). Background Review: Quest for Definable Causality. IGI Global. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-60960-525-4.ch002

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Wen-Ran Zhang. "Background Review: Quest for Definable Causality." In YinYang Bipolar Relativity: A Unifying Theory of Nature, Agents and Causality with Applications in Quantum Computing, Cognitive Informatics and Life Sciences. Hershey, PA: IGI Global, 2011. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-60960-525-4.ch002

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Abstract

This chapter presents a review on the quest for logically definable causality. The limitation of observability and truth-based cognition is discussed. The student-teacher philosophical dispute between Aristotle and Plato is revisited. Aristotle’s causality principle, David Hume’s challenge, Lotfi Zadeh’s “Causality Is Undefinable” conclusion, and Judea Pearl’s probabilistic definability are reviewed. Niels Bohr’s particle-wave complementarity principle, David Bohm’s causal interpretation of quantum mechanics, and Sorkin’s causal set program are discussed. Cognitive-map-based causal reasoning is briefly visited. YinYang bipolar logic and bipolar causality are previewed. Social construction and destruction in science are examined. It is asserted that, in order to continue its role as the doctrine of science, the logical definability of Aristotle’s causality principle has become an ultimate dilemma of science. It is concluded that, in order to resolve the dilemma, a formal system with logically definable causality has to be developed, which has to be logical, physical, relativistic, and quantum in nature. The formal system has to be applicable in the microscopic world as well as in the macroscopic world, in the physical world as well as in the social world, in cognitive informatics as well as in life sciences, and, above all, it has to reveal the ubiquitous effects of quantum entanglement in simple, comprehensible terms.

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