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On a Loophole in Causal Closure
Standard definitions of causal closure focus on where the causes in question are. In this paper, the focus is changed to where they are not. Causal closure is linked to the principle that no cause of another universe causes an event in a particular universe. This view permits the one universe to be...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6086231/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30147168 http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s11406-016-9791-y |
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description | Standard definitions of causal closure focus on where the causes in question are. In this paper, the focus is changed to where they are not. Causal closure is linked to the principle that no cause of another universe causes an event in a particular universe. This view permits the one universe to be affected by the other via an interface. An interface between universes can be seen as a domain that violates the suggested account of causal closure, suggesting a view in which universes are causally closed whereas interfaces are not. On this basis, universes are not affected by other universes directly but rather indirectly. |
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spelling | pubmed-60862312018-08-23 On a Loophole in Causal Closure Gamper, Johan Philosophia (Ramat Gan) Article Standard definitions of causal closure focus on where the causes in question are. In this paper, the focus is changed to where they are not. Causal closure is linked to the principle that no cause of another universe causes an event in a particular universe. This view permits the one universe to be affected by the other via an interface. An interface between universes can be seen as a domain that violates the suggested account of causal closure, suggesting a view in which universes are causally closed whereas interfaces are not. On this basis, universes are not affected by other universes directly but rather indirectly. Springer Netherlands 2017-02-15 2017 /pmc/articles/PMC6086231/ /pubmed/30147168 http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s11406-016-9791-y Text en © The Author(s) 2017 Open Access This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license, and indicate if changes were made. |
spellingShingle | Article Gamper, Johan On a Loophole in Causal Closure |
title | On a Loophole in Causal Closure |
title_full | On a Loophole in Causal Closure |
title_fullStr | On a Loophole in Causal Closure |
title_full_unstemmed | On a Loophole in Causal Closure |
title_short | On a Loophole in Causal Closure |
title_sort | on a loophole in causal closure |
topic | Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6086231/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30147168 http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s11406-016-9791-y |
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