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Deterministic time-reversible things can still have causality. Just today I used gdb's reversible-debugging feature on a deterministic program to locate a bug.
by MichaelBurge 5y ago
Deterministic time-reversible things can still have causality. Just today I used gdb's reversible-debugging feature on a deterministic program to locate a bug. The existence of a bug implies causality in the program's execution state.
- GavinMcG 5y agoDeterministic time-reversible things could still have causality in a universe that has causality. But that's not an effective response to the claim that there's no causality at all.
- tshaddox 5y agoI suppose you could still talk about causes in a deterministic time-reversible system, but it doesn’t match the normal sense of the word “cause” given that future states determine past states just as much as past states determine future states.