I don’t quite see why the causality is this flexible and arbitrary.
In stories and movies, people often find that the key tool/skill/knowledge they need to solve the problem, is something minor they picked up some time before.
The world could work like this, so that every minor thing you spent any time on would have a payoff at some point in the future. Call this a teleological world.
This world would have a different “causal” structure to our own, and we’d probably not conceive traditional CDT agents as likely in this world.
In stories and movies, people often find that the key tool/skill/knowledge they need to solve the problem, is something minor they picked up some time before.
The world could work like this, so that every minor thing you spent any time on would have a payoff at some point in the future. Call this a teleological world.
This world would have a different “causal” structure to our own, and we’d probably not conceive traditional CDT agents as likely in this world.