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If time were symmetric, wouldn't that mean instead of causality (future is influenced by the past) and retrocausality (past is influenced by the future), there
by stkdump 4y ago
If time were symmetric, wouldn't that mean instead of causality (future is influenced by the past) and retrocausality (past is influenced by the future), there is no preference and in effect no causality at all? A&B are necessarily connected, but none of them is the cause of the other.
- CuriouslyC 4y agoIf you think of it as a series of states with some prior probability, and jumps from state to state also have some probability, it isn't so much causal as correlated. If time is a true dimension and reality is the most probable universe when integrated over all of time, improbable states and transitions might occur in the "past" in order to enable high probability states and transitions in the future.