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Appendix 6. Can a soul be an entity for which causality is neither obeyed nor violated.
In order to explain, the concept of soul as Indian philosophy in general, Pokharna (1985) has introduced an abstract entity for which causality is neither obeyed nor violated B. This is an entity for which causality is neither obeyed nor violated. The principle of causal connection points out that for every effect there is a definite cause behind it (or a large number of causes behind it) and every effect in turn becomes a cause of some other effect. Now when we say that causality is violated then it can have the following two different meanings : (i) when the causality is violated then this can mean that temporally the role of cause and effect has been reversed so that first we have an effect and then there is a cause. This is the situation believed to be existing in the case of tachyons (particles moving faster than light). They are assumed to be moving backward in time so it is said that causality is violated by tachyons. (ii) Violation of causality can also mean that there may be some effects (causes) whose causes (effects) may not be known to us or no physically reasonable causes (effects) can be searched for given effects (causes). This is the situation which we have found in quantum mechanics where we have found that there are some uncontrollable fluctuations in the predictability of the state of a system in a given measurement process. These fluctuations are such that we cannot assign any known factors or causes responsible for it. Hence this entity in search of perfect determinism.
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