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.

There is nothing in this definition of cause and effect that logically requires causes to precede their effects, and it could be that in very exotic situations, such as very close to the Big Bang or inside black holes, they do not.

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• 10-2e9 Variants do exist in the multiverse - not in the past or in the future, but they literally do exist somewhere in the multiverse!

Related:

• 1-2g2s8 The unobserved parts of the wider phenomenon have in no way affected what we observe, yet they are essential to its explanation. Causation doesn’t exhaust explanation.
• The existence of such variants in the multiverse is the essence of rational (Austrian) economics—a study of human action which can be derived from and elaborated with David Deutsch’s worldview
  • 13-1a Humans have problems because we have to choose because we could be otherwise because of the multiverse
  • 13-1a0 The multiverse implies both explanation and action
  • 13-1a0a Refuting the existence of the multiverse will refute praxeology
  • 13-1a3 All action involves exchange across the multiverse
  • 13-1a3.1 The concept of cost must evoke the multiverse
  • 13-1a3b The subjective value theory persists because of the multiverse—because we are fallible
  • 13-4a The multiverse implies human action—the laws of physics dictate that humans act