Someone does something, others can be affected, and then they make choices based on being affected by that first person, which in turn results in affecting someone else, and on and on. Someone affects you, and you can affect them or others. So simple of a process, yet it becomes incredibly complex as the number of participants increases.
We have over 7 billion people engaging in the shared collective reality despite each of us having our own specific experiences and perceptions. I do something, and it has an affect on the "minds" and "hearts" of everyone else who can be touched by what I did.
What happens in the world can affect people and change how they think and feel, which affects the choices they make to act in the world. The choice are many, and we choose one or a few in response when something happens. On and on this process repeats.
It's so simple how it all works when looking at just one interaction, yet the complexity the process creates is amazing and beautiful to see in our mind's-eye when looking at how we interact in reality. Actions or events in one area of the planet can affect others somewhere else without them directly being connected in locality or know each other.
Here is how I have shown this complex beauty of our interactions, all from a simple to understand process that gets repeated and interacts with all others in various degrees of separation.
Causality is intimately connected with free will and consciousness. We have great degrees of freedom in our ability to choose what to do (effect) and the affect it has upon reality.
We are causal agents, sowing the seeds within consciousness that grow into the fruits of our labor through our actions that produce effects into reality. We also reap from reality, which makes us causal agents that sow and reap reality. We sow into reality to affect it, and we reap from reality for it to affect us.
As each of us acts in reality, we input into the collective field, web or causal forces that interchange effects in existence. What we all do creates the human world we have constructed in the past, present and into the future.
Each individual behavior aggregates with others into a collective sowing and reaping of reality. Once this is understood, we can see that in the end we are all in this together, all "connected", as our actions affect reality and affect others, and the actions other people do affect us as well. If we are headed off a cliff, then we need to take action do something that is required, even if people don't want to face the reality.
Another way to say it is that:
As we and others sow, so shall we and others reap, in the aggregate.
We reap what we sow ourselves, but we also reap what others sow because we are in one aggregate system of causal interchange, not in independent isolated systems as an island isolated from everything else.
There is one planet space-ship Earth we live on. As such, we are all in this together, all "connected" and "one" so to speak. Morality is the foundation for us to learn to get along and thrive as co-habitants on this planet with ourselves (humans animals) and other beings (non-human animals).
Wrong-actions affect us all in the end then, and as one suffers we all suffer in the aggregate. The only way to true unity (within ourselves and with others) is through truth and moral truth so that falsity and wrong-actions can be recognized, let go of, and not created again.
Our individual consciousness is a causal agent that acts as a segment of will (one among many in the world) and is a sower into reality.
The infographic has an individual and collective representation of how this works. We receive input of effects from reality that we are reaping from, which is the deterministic natural law causal force that we don't have a choice in receiving. Then we process that stimulus in ourselves (T-thoughts, E-emotions, A-actions) that acts as a causal force and we sow actions to affect reality. Causes do the sowing, effects do the reaping.
The existence of our human world and way of life is from the collective co-creation of all of our actions and behaviors together to produce the world we have around us.
Reality and existence is the reaper that reciprocates effects as order or entropy, as an accumulation process of all our actions and behaviors that creates the way of life we have.
If we degrade and destroy our planet then we're all going to feel it. The more wrong that we create, the less we head towards more right overall.
As each person outputs to affect reality, those causal forces interact and affect others to form a sort of "field", "force" or "web" of existence and the causal relationships that occur. We have interactions with existence and each other in that *pattern of reality that we affect through our actions and behavior.
Understanding the simple model provides me with a clarity, serenity and tranquility of comprehending how the complexity of life works. It's beautiful to understand. The input, processing and output of each individual interacts with others and the causal forces already in existence to make up chaotically complex relationships that we aren't even aware of for the most part. We're not literally all connected, but "we are all connected" once you understand how this works.
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You're a butterfly in a network of butterfly effects. ;)
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Yup :)
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True, as we sow so shall we reap.
A bad action done to others causes a negative impact on the individual who now produces a negative reaction that will affect others too.
The chain of reaction indeed goes on and on.
That's why we should seek to be an element of positive change.
Because a positive seed sown today can give raise to numerous positive impacts and reactions
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Indeed, well said. We pay it forward in many ways ;)
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Such an interesting topic to dive into and understand!
Was always interested in stuff like this!
Thanks for the post!
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Glad you gained value from it, thanks!
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I do believe in the fact that actions from others can indirectly or directly influence our lives!
Normally the actions of people close to you will have more impact than the ones further away. Ofcourse it all depeds on the action. Trump is not really close to me but if he starts a war it will effect my life considerably!
The same counts for our process to make decisions. The more info we have or the more different opinions we receive will influence the decision takig process.
If someone writes an article in the Steem blockchain about topic X, it could alter my opinion about it!
Ps how is the knee?
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Hehe yeah, people can do things and it reverberates around the world. Small world after all ;)
My knee is better. Will have to be careful. Thanks :)
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Indeed this is so true. Our actions words and nonverbal communication do have an impact on others. It's kind of like the Ripple in the water that keeps repeating. Bearing that in mind we also have a responsibility to make the world a better place and it bring happiness to others. We have a responsibility to spread truth and goodness and not pollute this world with evil . Good or bad what we do affects others thanks @krnel
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Yes, above all, not to create evil or immorality. Creating good is a default from not doing evil.
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I love this idea and I am somewhat reminded of the movie Pay it forward as I like the uplifting message of that movie and putting in the context of your post.
When we do a good deed for someone we based on our action do good and have the potential to make a good day for the person as its effect.
This in turn might make the person do a good deed to someone else and the cycle goes on and on.
This could also be true when we do something bad as it can perpetuate a cycle of bad days and incidents.
At first I was thinking of the butterfly effect but looking at the diagram you added it doesn't jive as the butterfly effect lends more itself into chaos theory.
This is a great post which inspired me to list down two topics I want to do in the future.
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Yup, we pay it forward in many ways ;) The chaos or order, the affects spread based on the choices we make to perpetuate it or stop it ;) I'm glad the post provided value to you :)
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Actions can truly produce complex results.
All living things are created to live in coexistance.
We should be mindful of our actions
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I very much enjoyed this read. I particularly enjoyed your closing paragraphs. During the read itself I had to think of how I fumbled the delegation you provided me with due to obligations offline and I played through potential consequences in my head. (Though it was more a forward pass I wasn't on the field to catch.) The sowing and reaping metaphor really struck me. What are the consequences for missing a harvest here, for tending another there? How may inaction have nipped a bud before it blossomed or left a grape to wither on the vine? Not just for myself, but for others as well. I can't know what would have happened here, but I console myself with the knowledge that I did what I had to do, so I could come back here and continue sowing my words to the winds of fate. Thank you again for the opportunity, I am sorry I wasn't able to put it to better use.
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Thanks :D Yeah that sucks :/ I wish you would have been able to use it, as others did...
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