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241 | Tim Maudlin on Locality, Hidden Variables, and Quantum Foundations
Sean Carroll's Mindscape: Science, Society, Philosophy, Culture, Arts, and Ideas
The Different Types of Causal Explanation
A lot of the explanation, we can do this in different levels, but let me do the first level. I think that explaining something, often I think is a causal explanation. In many cases, causes precede the effects. If people often talk about running a movie backward or imagining that - you still have a direction of time. The structure of causal explanation would be different. You have to get a bit deep and statistical mechanics does come into this here in a way that we couldn't get on the table clearly in a short period of time.
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