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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?
It would be completely random, with all events being equally likely at every point in time. It would have no history, since the past has no effect on the present or future