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Comment author: torekp 22 June 2013 06:28:12PM *  0 points [-]

I think one can also justify talk of backward causality along the lines of what Scott says on p. 23:

our choices today might play a role in selecting one past from a giant ensemble of macroscopically-identical but microscopically-different pasts.

If we are considering actions A and B now, and these correspond to microscopically different past facts X and Y, and there is no other route to knowledge of X or Y, it seems reasonable to agree with Scott that we are "selecting one past".