private_messaging comments on The Fabric of Real Things - Less Wrong

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Comment author: private_messaging 03 November 2012 07:44:08AM *  3 points [-]

Few words: CPT symmetry. The causality is just how we model things at macroscopic scale where the time symmetry is broken thermodynamically. At the bottom level, it's relations that have to be true, and to say that value of one variable in a relation causes value of other variable in a relation is either a minor language misuse or a gross misunderstanding arising from such misuse.