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Causality is just another way to say "the arrow of change".

That change happens to occur certain ways rather than others is what science exists to index.

Causality is infinite in all directions, at all scales, forever. When anything moves an inch to the right, everything else in the universe moves an inch to the left (on average). Think of infinite marbles in an infinite fishbowl, without the bowl.

Long before butterfly wing beats can stir the other side of the planet, their tiny hurricanes are swallowed by chaos.

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Long before butterfly wing beats can stir the other side of the planet, their tiny hurricanes are swallowed by chaos.
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We exist in the ignorance gap between chaos and causality. To the extent we do not understand causality we feel free. To the extent we can not understand causality we feel anxiety.

Every cause has an effect.
Every effect has a cause.
Every cause becomes an effect.
Every effect becomes a cause.

An effect is not a cause.

Advocate wrote: ↑Sat Jul 30, 2022 6:22 pm Think of infinite marbles in an infinite fishbowl, without the bowl.

I've gone one step further; I am now thinking about it without the marbles.

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[quote=Advocate post_id=586997 time=1659201769 user_id=15238]
Think of infinite marbles in an infinite fishbowl, without the bowl.
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I've gone one step further; I am now thinking about it without the marbles.
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Now try dropping the thinking. :)

Advocate wrote: ↑Mon Aug 01, 2022 5:28 pm
Now try dropping the thinking.

Well said.