I almost went with that answer, and didn’t ask. But then I thought about trade with future agents who have different resources and values than we do—resources and values which will be heavily influenced by what we do today. The structure seems to be at least as similar as self-consistent solutions in plasma physics.
If this universe contains agents who engage in acausal trade, does that make it partially acausal?
Nope. It’s just a terrible name.
I almost went with that answer, and didn’t ask. But then I thought about trade with future agents who have different resources and values than we do—resources and values which will be heavily influenced by what we do today. The structure seems to be at least as similar as self-consistent solutions in plasma physics.
Agents can make choices that enforce global logical constraints, using computational devices that run on local causality.
Thanks, I feel like I grok this answer: There may be higher order acausal structures in the universe, but they run on a causal substrate.
By ‘acausal trade’, do you mean:
Trading based on a present expectation of the future (such as trading in pork futures)
or
Trading based on data from the actual future
The first is causal (but does not preclude the possibility of the universe containing other acausal effects), the second is acausal.
Nope.