The Arrow of Time in Causal Networks

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If you didn't have anthropy at all, there's no such thing as cause and effect. And it doesn't make sense to talk about causes and effects. The information contained in the universe at every moment of time fixes every other moment in this deterministic model. So just by construction, the existence of something like an arrow of time must come about. Because somehow, you course n right? because you're not laplace's demon.

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