Association as causation: The fabric of meaning and existence itself

Source	https://www.essentiafoundation.org/association-as-causation-the-fabric-of-meaning-and-existence-itself/reading/
Author	Stephen Jarosek, BEng, MBA
Published	2026-05-22, 12:45 PM
Summary	This essay proposes association as a fundamental principle uniting physics, biology, and mind. Rather than treating causation as either upward (from parts to wholes) or downward (from wholes to parts), Jarosek suggests that coherence emerges through the relational act of association itself. From Carlo Rovelli’s relational quantum mechanics, where particles acquire properties only in interaction, to Michael Levin’s discoveries of cellular intelligence, to Charles Sanders Peirce’s triadic semiotic
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