Author: Major Cook

The problem of causality is of great importance: medicine and medicine medicine, psychology and sociology compete fiercely in attempts to find out the true causes of certain manifestations of the disease and cure the patient by eliminating them. They associate some causes with pathogens, others with events of early childhood, methods of education or working conditions. Anything is considered to be the sources of the disease - from the lead content in the air to social problems. It seems to us that this approach leads both medicine and psychology to a dead end. Of course, the answers to the question "why?" you can find as many as you want, but putting it at the forefront and making it an end in itself, we must admit that the reasons found are…

It is difficult to connect our reasoning with scientific ideas. People are ready to fully or partially associate the occurrence of symptoms of the disease with some mental processes. But what about those diseases (and there are much more of them), the causes of which are unequivocally associated with physical causes? Here we are faced with the main flaw of the usual way of thinking: a person is used to interpreting all events perceived by him at the causal level, constructing chains in which cause and effect are mutually unambiguous. You can read this phrase because we wrote it, because the publisher printed this book, because it was sold to you in a store, etc. This way of thinking seems so natural that most of humanity considers it as a…