The alien hypothesis?

[jbor at bigpond.com]

See also, e.g.,

http://theoryandscience.icaap.org/content/vol002.001/05zaman.html

http://theoryandscience.icaap.org/content/vol003.002/zaman.html

Cf. "[...] there's a feeling about that cause-and-effect may have been 
taken as far as it will go. That for science to carry on at all, it 
must look for a less narrow, a less . . . sterile set of assumptions. 
The next great breakthrough may come when we have the courage to junk 
cause-and-effect entirely, and strike off at some other angle." (GR 89)

best

On 19/10/2005 Otto wrote:

> This reminds me of Jonathan Culler's "On Deconstruction. Theory and 
> Criticism after Structuralism" (Cornell Univ., Ithaca, New York, 
> 1982). Maybe you should check the second chapter "Deconstruction" for 
> Nietzsche's reversal of cause and effect where it is shown how the 
> cause is imagined after the effect has been suffered. Got it only in 
> German.