causality

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(idea) by stash (1.9 mon) (print) ? 1 C! I like it! Fri Jul 07 2000 at 2:01:06

A relationship between two events separated by distance in a temporal dimension, used by describing something as causal or acausal. A causal relationship is one such that the occurrence of one event is dependent upon the occurrence of the other. Thus describing a relationship as acausal means that the events in this relationship are not dependent upon each other. Describing a single event as acausal would imply that the event is not dependent upon any other event in order to manifest itself (I think this is impossible).

Examples:
Causal--: I cut my finger ---> My finger bleeds
Acausal--: I cut my finger ---> The phone rings

(idea) by vireo (3.8 y) (print) ? I like it! Sun Mar 25 2001 at 21:21:00

A system is said to be causal if it produces no output before an input is fed to it. A system where all the output is produced before the input is said to be anticausal.

(definition) by Webster 1913 (print) I like it! Tue Dec 21 1999 at 22:23:55

Cau*sal"i*ty (?), n.; pl. Causalities ().

The agency of a cause; the action or power of a cause, in producing its effect.

The causality of the divine mind. Whewell.

2. Phren.

The faculty of tracing effects to their causes.

G. Combe.

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reverse causality	The day I woke up Faster Than Light	Law of Unintended Consequences	causal sex
Funnel of Causality	simplicity	Synchronicity	Causal
acausal	causa prima	form over function	David Hume
Why faster than light implies back in time	Back To The Future III	casualty	bifurcation
Causation	spoliation of evidence	Apeiron	How to lie with statistics
Fake causality	I know when the world will end	And the future refused to change	There is No Such Thing As an Opinion: A Letter

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