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Tell HN: On the Metaphysics of Retrocausality

2 pointsby ganzuulabout 1 year ago
Retrocausality has a human dimension which I term moral non-commutativity, meaning that the order in which we make moral operations does matter. In discussions with professionals in psychology I have been told that they do sometimes have patients which do not seem to observe the difference between &quot;my children starve, therefore I steal&quot; and &quot;I steal, and my children also starve.&quot; Taken to an extreme this psychological interaction of time-travel morality seems to have an effect on the integrity of the observer, meaning that a retrocausal Consequentialist observer is not the same as a classical Deontologist causal observer. This does feel like something with deep implications for what kind of human does the surviving.<p>Thank you for reading.

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