cause and effect
A large amount of western thinking, and in particular scientific thinking, is based on the concept of cause and effect. It appears, to our minds, to be how the world works. A cause creates an effect. If there is an effect therefore there must be a cause. If a cause exists then there must be an effect.
This has been an incredibly useful way of thinking and has had a large impact on creating our civilisation, science and technology. But is it the only way of looking at the world? In Physics this idea has been largely dropped in the newer fields such as quantum mechanics. Biologists are now starting to discard some of their ideas about “Stimulus/Response”.
How often does the “cause/effect” way of thinking affect our thinking? How could we change this?