This, like all of these posts, is utterly astounding to consider. I kept thinking of the phrase, "there's more than one way to ______". While this phrase has truth to it, it reduces everything to a heuristic, even if a helpful one. In your maps, John's wallet being left behind manifested in multiple ways depending on the causal stream. This to me is fascinating. A real thing happened (wallet forgotten) and that manifested into the infinite causal continuum of infinite outcroppings. The juxtaposition of past events into the infinite. So even though there may be "more than one way to _____", the path travelled to get there matters tremendously. And that path depends on every choice one makes and every choice ever made. It is motivating to me to consider my choices more deeply.
It was interesting thinking about some of the overlapping concepts and layering going on here with some of the previous posts, specifically your use of the causal stream and causal matrix. It seems like there is a lot of shared ground between a lot of these terms and major Venn-diagramming going on. For instance, all of this brings new meaning to me for the statement, "you don't have to know everything to know something." And also your example of the doctor using a heuristical process with their patient to get them to a specialist brought to mind a lot of that prior material well, including how the errant use of heuristics can bump us up against unknown unknowns, or known unknowns. But, with a causal map, that would ideally help to identify where those issues arose at least in retrospect.
This, like all of these posts, is utterly astounding to consider. I kept thinking of the phrase, "there's more than one way to ______". While this phrase has truth to it, it reduces everything to a heuristic, even if a helpful one. In your maps, John's wallet being left behind manifested in multiple ways depending on the causal stream. This to me is fascinating. A real thing happened (wallet forgotten) and that manifested into the infinite causal continuum of infinite outcroppings. The juxtaposition of past events into the infinite. So even though there may be "more than one way to _____", the path travelled to get there matters tremendously. And that path depends on every choice one makes and every choice ever made. It is motivating to me to consider my choices more deeply.
Well put! You are getting it, Patrick.
It was interesting thinking about some of the overlapping concepts and layering going on here with some of the previous posts, specifically your use of the causal stream and causal matrix. It seems like there is a lot of shared ground between a lot of these terms and major Venn-diagramming going on. For instance, all of this brings new meaning to me for the statement, "you don't have to know everything to know something." And also your example of the doctor using a heuristical process with their patient to get them to a specialist brought to mind a lot of that prior material well, including how the errant use of heuristics can bump us up against unknown unknowns, or known unknowns. But, with a causal map, that would ideally help to identify where those issues arose at least in retrospect.