Friday, August 24, 2007

Chicken or Egg

Stammering is interesting because the performance of the speech seems to cause the nervousness that accompanies the stammer. Or being nervous causes the stammer; or knowing that one might stammer causes the nervousness that causes the stammer.

If we take the view that there is no such thing as cause-effect then what?

The stammering speech is the nervousness. Neither causes the other. They are the same thing. The nervousness is the stammering speech. Is it not?

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