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Why is life "random" within lineal time?
If human existence is random in nature then why - within the confines of what we perceive as "lineal" time (meaning that time only goes in one direction and cannot be altered) - is human existence not limited by the confines of time? There is no lineal structure to human existence - only the fact that we age and die within the confines of lineal time but our lives in-between is completely random in nature? Why?
@ j - Causation is a "legal" concept of (fault or no-fault) and has no baring on the aforementioned philosophical question. Try again.
@ j - Causation is a "legal" concept of (fault or no-fault) and has no baring on the aforementioned philosophical question. Try again.
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- 8 years agoFavorite Answer
Because linearity is a mathematical function.
y=f(x)
Random functions do not have any relation. They are random.
y != any F(x).
- Anonymous8 years ago
Neither "human" nature nor "nature" is "random." This is the case at classical physical levels. All is causation.
What other time besides "lineal" is there?
Sources: The Path of the Higher Self
A Philosophy of Universality
The Mindful Universe
God at the Speed of Light