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AMA | May 2023

Sean Carroll's Mindscape: Science, Society, Philosophy, Culture, Arts, and Ideas

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The Importance of Cause and Effect in the Universe

We often look at the universe and we infer cause and effect or continuity through time. Hume is saying that we're not seeing those causal relationships directly. What we see is stuff. This is even if you grant the possibility that what we're seeing is not unvarnished, okay?

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