11 Feb '14 16:55>
Originally posted by googlefudgeBut once again, you are cheating. You admit your universe is hypothetical, but by using labels that have a well known direction in our universe you are implying something about our universe. Why not call them 'direction A' and 'direction B' in your universe?
This is why it seems to me to be utterly nonsensical to talk about future operations effecting the present
state or of 'past' operations being 'yet to be selected'.
If the 'future' operations are predefined then the system is completely deterministic, and has no randomness.
What if 'past' operations are not predefined. Cant we have randomness in the other direction?
But those future operations/states still have no baring whatsoever on the present state.
Why not?
The present state is only and exclusively dependent on the operations that HAVE been performed and is not dependent on any operations or states that might or will occur in the future.
Only because you defined them that way. I don't think you have addressed my scenario where I defined them the other way around.