A commentary on ‘Causality as individual essence: its bearing on synchronicity’

Roles of causation and meaning for interpreting correlations

“…A central theme in the essays (Tougas , Willeford ) by CT and WW is the notion of causation, or rather I varieties of notions of causation. I agree completely that Aristotle, primarily his Physics , is a good place to enter this issue, both historically and conceptually.…”

Attentive notice to a reply of Harald Atmanspacher (JAP, 59, 3, 429‐434)

“…In ‘Roles of causation and meaning for interpreting correlations’ (), Harald Atmanspacher replies to ‘Causality as individual essence: its bearing on synchronicity’ (Tougas ) and to ‘A commentary on “Causality as individual essence: its bearing on synchronicity”’ (Willeford ). Atmanspacher concludes with a fundamental metaphysical view.…”

“…To refer in such a way to Michael Polanyi's work (see also ) and William Willeford's comments (; see also ) about personal knowledge is not to discuss them, but only to go hurriedly beyond them without indicating what it is to be ‘personal’ or what it might be for ‘the objective’ to have a non‐independent relation to ‘the subjective’. Surely being personal is not being chatty or irrelevant.…”

Levels of unconsciousness and their formal structure

“…I suspect that this exercise could even lead to the discovery of additional features complementing Freud's classification in interesting ways, but again, this is not the place to explore this. Let me just expand a bit on one of the characteristics, timelessness, because of its paramount significance for the issue of causation (see Tougas 2014, Willeford 2014, and my reply to them).…”