Why do causes always seem to precede their effects? Is the forward direction of causality inextricably linked to the thermodynamic arrow of time (entropy)?
Anonymous
9/6/2025, 2:40:15 PM
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I think I genuinely believe we just see one slice at a time (different slices for each of us, which is fun/terrifying to think about in regard to simultaneity), which is why words like future or forward seem to have meaning. Like a Markov chain, all you have is a succession of states based on their precedents. A cause would just be an earlier state of the same phenomenon, like the seed of a plant. When you look at a tree, it implies some previous state just like the other way around.
Would be very much open to other views, because I've been stuck in this for a while.
Anonymous
9/6/2025, 5:22:45 PM
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>>24702446 (OP)
>2nd analogy
Without the concept of cause-and-effect, you couldn’t even experience a world where things happen in sequence — it would just be chaotic sensations.
Anonymous
9/6/2025, 7:04:35 PM
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>>24702446 (OP)
Because time is the form of the mind
Anonymous
9/6/2025, 8:38:50 PM
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offtopic. try >>>/his/ or >>>/sci/
