10-2e7 The common-sense concept of cause and effect makes sense because 'variants' do exist somewhere in the multiverse. Nothing necessitates causes to precede their effects.

10-2e8 Reasoning about causes and effects is reasoning about variants of the causes and effects. What would’ve happened. How it could’ve been otherwise.

Evolution is about what would’ve happened and how it could’ve been otherwise. In other words, evolution is about contingency. In the multiverse, contingencies are realized somewhere in the multiverse, if not forbidden by the laws of physics.
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