I've been incredibly slack on my blog, I could say it's got to do with twitter becoming a more useful medium to me, however I'm not really sure, mostly because we as human's are fundamentally flawed in how we correlate Cause and Effect relationships.

There are however ways to break through this trap, and it's surprisingly simple, it does however take a shift of perception on how we view "reality".

Establish the Effect, this is the symptom that you know is there, if it wasn't there no cause-effect relationship could possibly be found. Let's say for example, that we have an effect of a sore throat.

So, I have a sore throat and I think it's due to the fact that I'm getting ill, because I stayed out in the cold last night. Great so we have a sequence of events, and a sequence of possible causes, and I've created meaning (which acts as the relationship between cause and effect).

1. Identify the assumptions in the above statement.
2. Do you agree or disagree with those assumptions?
3. What evidence do I have that they are valid?
4. What evidence do I have that they are false?

Ok, so...

1. The assumption is that is being out in the cold that made me sick.
2. I'm a little unsure of those assumptions because:
3. Although I do have a sore throat
4. The lozenges that I'm sucking arne't making it go away

The process of to rethink cause and effect relationships, in order to start looking at the real cause is very simple (in simple cause-effect systems, depending on the feedback of this post I will go into more complex detail at a later stage).

1. Question the existence of an entity
2. Question the existence of a relationship.

It is possible, that additional independent, equal or greater causes may exist (in this cause I had actually burnt my throat on a cup of coffee) or it may be a combination of defendant causes. Various modeling methods may be required before understand what the root cause of a symptom really is.

This post brought to you by my studying up on archetypes to solve theory of constraint problems.

As we go through life and we grow through our formal education systems, learning about physics, math, literature and various other absolutely fundamental systems of knowledge, we tend to leave out, in my mind, something a little more crucial, an understanding of what we can expect to see from ourselves and the people around us as we start to mature.

Friendship at school is a basic thing, women develop a core tribe of a few friends that tend to take the maxim of their energy, while men tend to garner a lot more friends with a lower signal to noise ratio on friendship, thus creating greater network with slightly less individual effort. These relationships are easy to maintain as we're forced into shared experiences, we are all at the same time dealing with bullies, puberty, learning how to stumble around the opposite sex and rebellion in general.

Our early twenties we spend bounding from relationship to relationship, or one-night-stand to one-night-stand, depending of course on your level of hedonism or ability to lubricate socially, and then something incredible happens: Social Genocide.

Slowy, at first, the tree spanning fractals of your social groups start dropping nodes, two at a time. The entire reason for becoming social eats it's own tail, and the division and rift starts to happen. Not just based on couples who no longer maintain relationships with as much fever as they may have previously, but through context switching, too many people, doing too many things, and slowly the tragedy of the human dilema slips in, and the realisation occurs: Who do I identify with? I feel alone. Where do I go from here? I have no information, I didn't know to expect this.

This can be a terrifying place, it is also the place of freedom. It is a place where you have the ability to shift your perception of who you are into who you want to be, because your identity lies within your own hands, rather than the hands of those that you've known all your life. Your life starts to shape itself under self-review, rather than peer review, and if you take that step to respond to it, you have the ability, not to be lonely, rather to be free.

Who are you, when the only person you need to share with is yourself?