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Pearl on causality – The Universe from an Intentional Stance

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Here’s a quote by Judea Pearl (from p. 419f. of the Epilogue of the second edition of Causality) that, in light of his other writing on the topic, I found surprising when I first read it: Let us ex…

Here’s a quote by Judea Pearl (from p. 419f. of the Epilogue of the second edition of Causality ) that, in light of his other writing on the topic, I found surprising when I first read it: Let us examine how the surgery interpretation resolves Russell’s enigma concerning the clash between the directionality of causal relations and the symmetry of physical equations. The equations of physics are indeed symmetrical, but when we compare the phrases “A causes B” versus “B causes A,” we are not talking about a single set of equations. Rather, we are comparing two world models, represented by two di

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