asparisi comments on The Fabric of Real Things - Less Wrong

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Comment author: ChristianKl 13 October 2012 01:17:07PM 1 point [-]

So we're talking about a universe where there is no A --> B causal connections.

Actually we aren't. We are talking about an universe where there are effects that happen without cause. That doesn't mean that effects that have causes aren't allowed.

Comment author: asparisi 14 October 2012 05:30:08AM 2 points [-]

Hm. That is conceptually possible, I suppose. Although I can't really imagine how that sort of demarcation criteria would work.