Some modern physicists have already started to give up on "causality", as a result of EPR experiments showing that "spooky action at a distance" does indeed happen. So "causality" may indeed be an illusion that results from our (vastly imperfect) "memory" system. This is essentially a version of the anthropic principle: we see what our minds & memories allow us to see. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anthropic_principle Szilard/Maxwell/Bennett found that the baseball umpire's rule is true: there aren't any balls or strikes until the umpire calls them. Translation: there is a large energy cost to nailing down a memory; the cost may not show up, however, until you _clear_ the memory to zeros. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Entropy_in_thermodynamics_and_information_theor... At 12:00 PM 3/26/2011, Bill Gosper wrote:
In freshman Humanities, we had to read Hume's
1. *An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding*<http://www.infidels.org/library/historical/david_hume/human_understanding.html>
**wherein he concluded causality was essentially illusory. Or so I gathered. In his gedanken mechanics, the terminology was so muddled and in conflict with modern terminology that I boggled. --rwg