#mental-model #causality #induction #determinism Charlie Munger calls it inconsistency avoidance >The so-called instinct of causality is nothing more than the fear of the unfamiliar, and the attempt at finding something in it which is already known.—It is not a search for causes, but for the familiar. ~ [[Nietzsche]] >There are only two types of people in the world. People who want to live comfortably—they are seeking death, they want a comfortable grave. And people who want to live—they choose to live dangerously, because life thrives only when there is [[Philosophy/Mind/Risk]]. ~ [[Osho]] Somehow nature taught us to find causes to everything, and therefore the foundation of our knowledge are based on [[Philosophy/Causality]]. What is the result of this? We try hard to relate things, and we are unlikely to approach the unknown. >The cognate word xenos can mean both “stranger” and “friend”; it is the root from which we get the English word “xenophobia,” the fear of strangers or foreigners, as well as the sadly less common “xenophilia,” the love of strangers or of unknown objects. ~ Homer - Wilson