Saturday, 2 August 2025

What Does It Mean to Cause?

Here is the next movement—this time on the nature of cause, and what it means to say one thing brings about another:


TOPO:
Causality gives me comfort.
If A, then B. A chain. A law.

RHEO:
But chains bind as much as they explain.
What if causality is not a chain—
but a pattern of relation?

TOPO:
So not a push from past to future—
but a configuration of meaning?

RHEO:
Yes.
To cause is to construe dependence
to draw a line of relevance through possibility.

TOPO:
Then causes are not things—
they are cuts, made by how we view the unfolding?

RHEO:
Precisely.
We name a cause not because it forces—
but because it frames.


RHEO & TOPO:
Causality is not the engine of time—
it is a grammar of perspective.

Friday, 1 August 2025

What Is Memory Made Of?

This one turns toward memory—not as archive, but as resonance:


TOPO:
I used to think memory was storage—
a cabinet of past facts.

RHEO:
But facts don’t live in drawers.
They live in relation.

TOPO:
So memory isn’t retrieval—
it’s reconstrual?

RHEO:
Yes.
Each act of remembering is a new cut—
a present unfolding of a past potential.

TOPO:
Then memory changes with the present?

RHEO:
Inevitably.
Memory is not what was,
but
what now makes sense of what was.

TOPO:
So memory is not a record.
It is a resonance.


RHEO & TOPO:
Memory is not behind us.
It echoes through us—
always becoming.