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? asked in Arts & HumanitiesPhilosophy · 8 years ago

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?

Update:

@ j - Causation is a "legal" concept of (fault or no-fault) and has no baring on the aforementioned philosophical question. Try again.

Update 2:

@ 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 ago
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    Because linearity is a mathematical function.

    y=f(x)

    Random functions do not have any relation. They are random.

    y != any F(x).

  • Anonymous
    8 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

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