Paracausality: Difference between revisions
Formal definition of paracausality citing two places it's defined in Destiny canon (text linked in references) plus some non-Destiny uses in trivia
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'''Paracausality''' is | '''Paracausality''' is "an intervention in reality from outside, parallel to causality." <ref name="Hidden Dossier>https://www.ishtar-collective.net/records/the-hidden-dossier</ref> Golden Age science defined paracausality as "a correlation...between events with no plausible causal relationship under closed monist physics, but a plausible relationship under another conceivable system of cause and effect." <ref name="K1 Codes and Procedures Handbook>https://imgur.com/a/LwZwi8K</ref> | ||
==History== | ==History== | ||
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==Trivia== | ==Trivia== | ||
*Throughout the game, there has been an established difference between ''Paracausal'' and ''[[Acausality|Acausal]]''. Para- is a prefix meaning "beside; adjacent to", while causal refers to the physics of cause and effect. Paracausal is not the same as acausal, which is the opposite of causality with the Greek prefix a- ("not, without"). Paracausal thus means the Light and the Darkness obey physics which ignore or sidestep conventional [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Causal_closure cause-and-effect systems]. | *Throughout the game, there has been an established difference between ''Paracausal'' and ''[[Acausality|Acausal]]''. Para- is a prefix meaning "beside; adjacent to", while causal refers to the physics of cause and effect. Paracausal is not the same as acausal, which is the opposite of causality with the Greek prefix a- ("not, without"). Paracausal thus means the Light and the Darkness obey physics which ignore or sidestep conventional [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Causal_closure cause-and-effect systems]. | ||
*Before its use in Destiny, the word 'paracausal' was coined at least twice, once in a [https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/5286792/ 1970 study of belief systems in Aboriginal children] and once in Christopher Bennet's 2011 Star Trek novel [https://christopherlbennett.wordpress.com/home-page/star-trek-fiction/dti-watching-the-clock/watching-the-clock-annotations-p-1/ Watching the Clock]. It has since appeared in the roleplaying game [https://massif-press.itch.io/corebook-pdf-free Lancer] and other science fiction media as shorthand for a system of non-physical causality. | |||
==List of appearances== | ==List of appearances== | ||