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Comment author: Eliezer_Yudkowsky 10 October 2012 05:56:43AM 5 points [-]

Koan 3:

Does the idea that everything is made of causes and effects meaningfully constrain experience? Can you coherently say how reality might look, if our universe did not have the kind of structure that appears in a causal model?

Comment author: thomblake 12 October 2012 07:37:17PM 0 points [-]

This one is great - it really does have the contradictory nature of traditional koans.

Just try to picture what you would do to test whether the universe was causal, and how we would adjust our models based on such a test.