Causelessness – The Blind Spot in the Design of the Mind

Imagine anything you wish…
Worlds outside time. Creatures made of thought. Life without death. Breathing underwater. Consciousness, untethered from a body.
No matter how impossible the idea may seem, your mind will shape it, mold it, and fit it neatly into a framework of meaning.

But try, just once, to imagine something without a cause –
and everything inside you will come to a halt.
Imagination falters.
Language collapses.
And thought freezes in its cradle.

There is only one idea the human mind cannot grasp,
nor even meaningfully approach:
That something – anything – could exist without a cause.

Because the mind cannot think outside of causality.
Causality is not a cognitive habit.
It is the architecture of our awareness.
We are born into it, breathe it with every experience,
see the world through it,
and understand ourselves by it.

The human mind is not merely familiar with causality –
it is causally constructed.

It does not reject causelessness out of stubbornness,
but because it simply lacks the cognitive instruments to conceive it.

Ask your mind to imagine a being that arose from pure emptiness –
and it will dress it in light, sound, shape… anything to make it feel preceded.
And then, almost instinctively, the questions erupt:
Who created it?
What came before it?
Where did the emptiness itself come from?

Not because you were taught to ask those questions –
but because you were built to.

Even imagination… is bound by cause.
We say imagination is free.
But in truth, it never creates out of nothing.
It only rearranges what the mind already knows,
and cloaks it in unfamiliar metaphors –
always beneath the shadow of cause and effect.

Every flicker of imagery, every idea that stirs in your mind,
emerges from a prior impulse,
a hidden root,
a trigger you’re not even aware of.

That’s why we cannot think without causality –
because thought itself cannot function outside it.

Causelessness is not simply shocking –
it is unthinkable.

It is the blind spot in our perception.
The void that refuses to be filled.
The paradox that cannot be solved –
because it never truly begins.