rsmurphy wrote: Thu Jul 27, 2023 3:13 pmI will argue that kinetic activity is merely a by-product of intra-dimensional energy moving through our realm; they don't be meaning to do it.
Makes me think of those philosophers - Malebranche and I think Al-Ghazali, and also Leibniz - who were into the idea of a separately acting intellect apart from the actually perceivable that they thought would be necessary to explain causal chains: items do not cause change in each other, it is the acting intellect which makes them change at precise moments...
The thing that makes things happen is not bound to physical limitations at all, it simply decides to always act in such a way that phenomena appear lawbound, but it could theoretically act however it wanted, and any change could occur without any locatable cause.
This view has definitely lost its popularity and I always found it hardly intelligible. I was just amused to note how it does leave a place for poltergeist activity.
In this view, even though the acter of events is trusted to always act regularly and predictably, one could imagine a number of renegade mini-intellects going around miffing things up in very limited, local contexts.
