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AMA | September 2022

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

CHAPTER

Locality in Counterfactual Physics

Locality is a simplification that gives you some handle on what happens and also some counterfactual reasoning abilities. The idea of locality is there in the balls moving in three dimensional space description, but it's not there. You can say, Oh, yes, the two balls scattered. I saw it happen right in front of me right there. Okay, that makes sense. So even if so, you can imagine some really weird counterfactual physics where you would just been handed that 60 dimensional system,.

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