[The One and Only...]

Originally Posted by kellychaos

The rules of logic are bound by the way we think. The way we think is bound, more or less, by the laws (or rules ... give it a name) of Nature. Thus, yes, logic is bound by rules. I don't see any corollation between logic and the metaphysical. It's a contradiction in terms, really.

Logic is bound by no such thing.

Originally Posted by The One and Only...

It is a construct of the mind based on the phenomena of cause and effect and, if you understood a word of what Hume was trying to convey, even the laws of cause and effect are theorectical because they're limited by what we can perceive with a limited amount of senses. We will always be limited to any true knowledge of a "black and white" cause ... i.e. it will always be out of our reach. At the same time, it's more or less the best we can do with what we have along with an innate sense of probability based on what has come before. Also, throw in the Einstein's laws of relativity and you'd see that even the definition of time is subjective and dynamic. How can you positively define such an entity when it is so subjective to change?

Time is what all natural events occur in. It has nothing to do with principles of causuality.

Originally Posted by The One and Only...

Note that there are different types of intelligence and/or sensory knowledge. Who's to say that humans may not evolved along different lines (say, an instinct outside of speech and/or tool making) that would have allow us to become just as sucessful without the aid of technology?

Probability theory has a lot to say about it.