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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- 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.
- 9-4b2a1d0.1 Digitization (articulation) is a play with contingency (i.e., ‘could have been’-s)
- 10-1a5 Digitizing history means explaining each fork as contingent points (the could’ve been) for the history around an idea. History is the Idea Maze, and must be created symbolically (never non-digitally nor indexically) by the individuals.
- 13-5b1c Saving is fundamentally about foregoing things that could’ve been done—it’s about choosing one specific timeline over others
- 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