"When we encounter a series of events in the world, our bodies sense them first and foremost. Following from this encounter, we tend to link aspects of those events by means of likeness. Increasingly we form metaphors which link and network those events in terms that are informed by our growing stockpile of metaphors. First, they are simple, but they grow more complex. Our thinking then, begins to range across those associations we have already formed. It begins to deepen its operations, building on that initial foundation. A logic of causation through association is an imaginative causation, a para-causation, and it supports magical thinking. As this deepens, we relate more to the mental spaces we create than to the quality of the events. We treat events as members of a categorical class, and reason about those classes. In doing so, the domain of quality and sensation increasingly becomes a collection of nominalized “essences.” We can dispense altogether with the primary content, a durative flux, and move toward comparing and contrasting categories which are imagined to be self-identical. The more abstract we go, the more we move toward pure reason. The more rationalistic we become, the emptier these categories become. Science, then, as an empirical method attempts to turn back toward sensation as a ground for reason. Still, so long as the categorical apparatus is unexamined, a science that is uncritical of its own tacit mental spaces, it still relies on the associative mind which is largely formed out of para-causal relations. It thus interpolates categorical thinking into the flux of time: a non-categorical space. When the empirical scientific method begins to draw in aspects of the social sciences which deal with our categories, then we open up the capacity to view time in its given-ness, and the process comes back round. I think this is the most effective way of taking responsibility for our projections of mind-onto-body, or put another way, our spaces-onto-times. The aim is to perceive time as an in-itself, with spaces emerging as a result of human thinking." The Art of Hidden Causation - Peter Duchemin, PhD
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