Wednesday, June 14, 2017

Formal Causality and Unified Field Theory

Unlike in Efficient Causality, in Formal Causality, there is no Conservation of Momentum.  In other words, if A is part of a manifold being organized by some Formal Cause, that unity is not automatically transferred to the internal manifold of A.  For example, if a Constitution organizes the members of a polity, it does not necessarily follow that the cerebellum of a member will coordinate its motions.  For, the scope of the latter Formation is heterogeneous with respect to that of the former, unlike in the case of Efficient Causality.  This distinction between the two Causalities is perhaps instructive to physicists who, following Einstein, in the pursuit of a Unified Field Theory, have been stymied by the apparent irreducibility of macrocosmic forces to cosmic and micro- ones.  Perhaps they believe that God does not play heterogeneity with the universe.

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