[MD] Quick one: causation

[MarshaV]

At 08:41 PM 1/15/2009, you wrote:
>Compare:
>On any given day, ice cream sales are 50% Vanilla,
>30% Chocolate & 20% Strawberry.
>What causes this?  Nothing--it's just that 50% of people prefer
>V to C or S; 30% prefer C to V or S & 20% prefer S to V or C.
>vs.
>If you tap an egg with a toothpick it will break 1% of
>the time, with a needle 5% of the time, with a pencil 95%
>of the time.
>What causes this?  Nothing--it just that the in 100 trials,
>the toothpick breaks the egg 1 time, the needle 5 times &
>the pencil 95 times.
>Craig

Greetings Craig,

I vaguely remember sitting in a statistics class.  I should have paid 
more attention.

Rather than a causes b, a one-directional thing, a Buddhist might 
state that the relationship between a and b is mutually 
interdependent based on cause and conditions.   I may be suffering 
text anxiety, but I do not see an answer in your post.  Does 
probability always imply a one-direction relationship, or is the 
implied relationship mutually interdependent?  (I hope I've made sense.)


Marsha






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The Universe is uncaused, like a net of jewels in which each is a 
reflection of all the others in a fantastic, interrelated harmony without end.
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