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Do qualia cause effects, and if so, do these effects offer survival advantages from an evolutionary standpoint?
The ability to process sensory information is an evolutionary advantage. Same as an automatic vacuum cleaner with a camera will clean a room more efficiently than one equipped with just a bumper.
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Do qualia cause effects, and if so, do these effects offer survival advantages from an evolutionary standpoint?
Yes, qualia cause effects, but this does not by itself produce a survival advantage, because every organism has qualia. (Although the specific type of qualia a particular organism experiences may ...
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Do qualia cause effects, and if so, do these effects offer survival advantages from an evolutionary standpoint?
There are many views on what consciousness is, and what its relation is to causation.
Regarding observable differences between conscious and non-conscious entities, there is the idea of philosophical ...
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Hume says we can't determine a causal connections between objects. Why separate the system into objects at all?
I think your summary of Hume's view, regardless of how valid it is, undervalues our scientific understanding. We don't simply say the ball drops and bounces, we have ideas such as the curvature of ...
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Hume says we can't determine a causal connections between objects. Why separate the system into objects at all?
I agree with your summary of Hume's perspective of the principle of
causality.
The philosopher Karl Popper dealt with the problem under the name
“problem of induction”, i.e. how to justify a general ...
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How are the actions of conscious beings interpreted in terms of cause and effect?
If we consider that cause B is a conscious being, would there still be a need of a cause A?
Yes.
After all, a conscious being is not an inanimate object; in fact, a conscious being is able to move ...
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Is the principle of cause and effect bound to material?
Cause and effect are not things if you look at very small amounts of matter. A single nucleus, for example, consists of protons and neutrons in a potential well. The wave functions for the particles ...
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Is the principle of cause and effect bound to material?
If there WAS a Creation, it was preceded by Chaos, in which by definition there was no cause or effect.
If we don't subscribe to that certainty, the only honest answer must be 'we don't know'.
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Is the principle of cause and effect bound to material?
The cause is always embedded/implanted in the actualization: The principle of cause and effect - although usefull as a tool - is an illusion of how things work. Because of the fact that all things are ...
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Is the principle of cause and effect bound to material?
Effect is. Cause isn't.
All effects are physical events, material exchanges of energy.
Most causes are also effects to prior causes. But some causes are not. Decisions made by conscious beings are not ...
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Is the principle of cause and effect bound to material?
All phenomena material or non material arise conditionally and conditions themselves are phenomena. All phenomena are compounded (resulting from combination). There are different types of material ...
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Is the principle of cause and effect bound to material?
In the abstract, the concept of causality/causation is meager enough that we can ask about causes "outside of material experience," but the twist is that without empirical backup, our ...
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Is the principle of cause and effect bound to material?
Before the existence of human beings cause and effect did not exist. Because the two are man-made concepts to explain the relation between certain phenomena we observe.
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Is there any principle that requires only things that begin to exist have a cause?
OP: "if the first cause is by definition uncaused, what possible principle could serve to differentiate between these two kinds of first causes?"
This can be explained from a ...
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Is there any principle that requires only things that begin to exist have a cause?
In accordance with @Marco Ocram's answer, I will reference the specific way in which an ancient Greek philosopher, Parmenides - who is the father of ontology - thinks related to your question.
He ...
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Is there any principle that requires only things that begin to exist have a cause?
Agreed. Isn't that what various religions do with god? You claim something has been there forever without a cause in order to explain the existence of things that have not been around for ever. You ...
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Justice and general intelligence systems?
Depends on the specifics and those aren't really real yet and not specified in the question.
As of right now you'd look at all the humans involved in the process and if they could have prevented the ...
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Justice and general intelligence systems?
In a real incident a pedestrian was struck and killed by a
self-driving car. In this case, the automated car was
capable of detecting cars and certain obstacles in order to
autonomously navigate the ...
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Are there phenomena which are partially spontaneous and partially causal?
It would depend on how you define cause. Some argue that it is merely a condition that is necessary for an effect to occur. Most, when they think of a cause, think of a necessary condition that is ...
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Are there phenomena which are partially spontaneous and partially causal?
It depends on how you interpret your terminology. A phenomenon, such as fog, say, might considered to have multiple causes, in that several factors must be present for it to form. Also, there is a ...
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