If the universe is timeless, but causal, it is an interesting empirical observation that causal direction never seems to contradict ‘temporal direction.’
I don’t want to speak for Pearl, but my understanding of his position is that causality is more fundamental than probability in the human mind (not necessarily more fundamental in reality).
If the universe is timeless, but causal, it is an interesting empirical observation that causal direction never seems to contradict ‘temporal direction.’
I don’t want to speak for Pearl, but my understanding of his position is that causality is more fundamental than probability in the human mind (not necessarily more fundamental in reality).
That’s what it seems he’s getting at in the linked essay.