Following the logic of Newton’s third law of motion, “For every action there is an equal and opposite reaction” we can make a statement such as “Something caused this itch.” We could ask that as a question such as “What caused this itch” and there IS an answer, based upon the knowledge in that law.
With that logic, we could ask “What caused light?” and there would have to be a definite, already known answer. The most logical answer would be darkness, light’s opposite.
Again, following that logic, light has an end in darkness, its opposite. My question, does knowing this change this outcome?
are you sure you are applying the Newton law right? Newton merely meant that if you apply force to something it will apply the same amount of force back, but this has nothing to do with actual causes of things, it only has to do with things that already exist and apply forces to each other. What caused light can thus not be answered in this way. unless you have text book evidence?
something interesting i read the other day is that in a universe there can never exist an unstopable force and an immovable object at the same time, or at least it seems they can’t, because if the two encounter one another nobody can imagine what would happen. So I wonder which one of the two exists, the unstopable force or immovable object? Or maybe none of the two.
This line of questioning only seems interesting to me when you take a Hegelian perspective on it. You have to realize that the only reason you observe the world in terms of this dichotomy is because of categories set up by your self as a seeing being. Then you could realize that, yes, your knowledge did change that because you ‘know’ that if you don’t turn on the light you’ll crash into stuff.
Cause and effect taken as a ‘scientific fact’ without any greater framework is nothing but a tool to delude yourself into thinking that you have a handle on things just so you can get that little endorphin rush that accompanies senseless understanding.
I’d recommend not trying to figure out answers the world by thinking about it and instead figure out ways of letting the world provide its own answers to questions you didn’t even know you had.