Injective altruism
here i am going to use mathematic principles, such i hope to better represent what our causal and yet subjective reality is.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Injective_function
causality is thought of and described by atheists and science in the main as if like ‘bijectives’ [see link] ~ a one-to-one basis, yet humans and other creatures experience reality subjectively. we perceive qualities as much as the informational values [math/physics kind of values] which are physically received. This makes our experience and existence more akin to ‘injectives’, and causality for living things is not bijective.
So how does altruism come into it,…
think of causality as if your life is like a train on a track, the collection of inherited things and situations denote the nature of the train and in part its journey. Naturally as they roll on down the track there will be junctions/interactions, so there are no singular causal lines as such. However, once one can see how that works e.g. In a given situation, an altruistic act [even if done upon a pretence or order] is causally equal to stepping off one train and onto another. Or perhaps it is more akin to shouting across at a train to warn of impending doom ~ a broken track for example. If we all done altruistic acts because it were denoted by religion or law or whatever reason you have [even downright lies], then surely we would be modifying our causality.
Is it not better to change causality and yield more freedom [to defeat it even], not for religious or societal reasons or some such things, but because the intelligent thing to do in a causal universe is to use causality to change causality. Any random act of altruism will change causality, it doesn’t even matter what reason one uses.
- not sure if robbing banks also does the same thing
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