Reading Erwin Schrodinger’s “My View of the World” prompted my inquiry about cause and effect. Schrodinger refers to the connection between the material world and our experience as “hypothetical.” Schrodinger goes on to state that the material world, “…is not really observable, not, that is, as a propter hoc but only as a post hoc. The first of these considerations makes the hypothesis of the material world metaphysical, because there is nothing observable that corresponds to it; the second makes it mystical, because it requires the application of an empirically well-founded mutual relation between two objects (cause and effect) to pairs of objects of which only one (the sense-perception or volition) is ever really perceived or observed, while the other (the material cause or material achievement) is merely an imaginative construct.

Perhaps the subject of my post should have been “Erwin Schrodinger’s ‘My View of the World’ and his treatment of ‘cause and effect’”